running - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

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”]

= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Andrew Wang	Illinois	NYU	76	-5
Amith Punyala	WUSTL B	Rutgers	76	-5
Jason Zhang	Toronto B	Virginia	77	10
Swapnil Garg	Berkeley A	Northwestern	79	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Waterloo	80	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Texas	80	10
Forrest Weintraub	Columbia A	Chicago B	82	10
Shardul Rao	Minnesota A	Purdue	82	10
Matthew Siff	Yale A	Johns Hopkins	86	10
Andy Yu	Maryland	Brown	87	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Chicago A	89	-5
Ashish Subramanian	Duke	Claremont Colleges	93	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Georgia Tech	105	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	Toronto A	110	10
Graham Cope	Florida	Arizona State	113	10
Shiv Seshan	Chicago D	Berkeley B	113	10
Jack Rado	Columbia B	Penn	113	10
Michal Gerasimiuk	Stanford	Cornell A	113	10
Jeffrey Fung	Harvard	Cornell B	113	10
Sam Baker	McGill	Minnesota B	113	10
Aidan Fein	Vanderbilt	North Carolina B	113	10
Lexi Terman	Rutgers	WUSTL B	116	10
Ben Sterling	Yale B	Ottawa	116	10
Cory Smith	Kentucky	South Carolina	126	10
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	WUSTL A	126	10
Max Hodes	Chicago C	Truman State	130	10
Halle Friedman	NYU	Illinois	130	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	100%	0%	13%	104.00