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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Women perform this activity with yucca hoops in the ariwete ritual. Orlando Patterson credited this activity for “paradoxical” increases in his home country’s life expectancy identified by James C. Riley. Daniel Lieberman argued that this activity’s flat cost curve outperformed the U-shape of a [emphasize] less costly behavior’s “inverted pendulum” mechanism. Hypotheses about mechanisms of this activity, such as ACTN3 polymorphisms and high VO2 max, fail to explain its “economy” (-5[2])among (10[1])Kalenjin peoples (10[1])like (10[2])the Nandi. (10[2])A Christopher McDougall book (10[1])exoticized (10[1])the use (-5[1])of huaraches (“wah-RAH-chays”) and ground (10[1])pinole (“pee-NOH-lay”) during this activity by Chihuahua’s Rarámuri people. David Raichlen argued that (10[1])endocannabinoids, not endorphins, mediate this (10[1])activity’s so-called “high.” (10[7])For 10 points, (10[2])cursorial hominins may have evolved what activity for persistence hunting (10[2])like pursuit predation? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: running [accept jogging, racing, footraces, sprinting, endurance running, marathon running, dashing, chasing, chase, or other types of running; accept pursuit or pursuing until “pursuit” is read; prompt on locomotion, movement, exercise, sports, striding, strides, or equivalents of any; prompt on hunting or tracking or equivalents by asking “via what activity?”; reject “walking” or “ambulation” or “trekking”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew WangIllinoisNYU76-5
Amith PunyalaWUSTL BRutgers76-5
Jason ZhangToronto BVirginia7710
Swapnil GargBerkeley ANorthwestern7910
Jakob MyersIndianaWaterloo8010
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina ATexas8010
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AChicago B8210
Shardul RaoMinnesota APurdue8210
Matthew SiffYale AJohns Hopkins8610
Andy YuMarylandBrown8710
Charles HangWUSTL AChicago A89-5
Ashish SubramanianDukeClaremont Colleges9310
Conor ThompsonIowa StateGeorgia Tech10510
Todd MaslykMichiganToronto A11010
Graham CopeFloridaArizona State11310
Shiv SeshanChicago DBerkeley B11310
Jack RadoColumbia BPenn11310
Michal GerasimiukStanfordCornell A11310
Jeffrey FungHarvardCornell B11310
Sam BakerMcGillMinnesota B11310
Aidan FeinVanderbiltNorth Carolina B11310
Lexi TermanRutgersWUSTL B11610
Ben SterlingYale BOttawa11610
Cory SmithKentuckySouth Carolina12610
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL A12610
Max HodesChicago CTruman State13010
Halle FriedmanNYUIllinois13010