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Question

Students are compared to four types of this food in a quote attributed to Gamaliel the Elder. An emblematic debate between the Beit (“bait”) Hillel and Beit Shammai (“shah-MYE”) concerned the precise point at which this food could become ritually impure. (-5[1])A recipe for this food is sweeter west of a namesake line (10[1])that divides Litvak (-5[1])and Galician dialects of Yiddish. That preparation of this food is a common Sabbath (10[1])dish because (-5[1])it (-5[1])avoids bans on borer (“boh-RAIR”), or “picking and separating.” In the Book of Tobit, (-5[1])this food cures the title patriarch’s blindness. (10[4])This is the main [emphasize] animal to be considered (10[1])pareve (10[1])(“PAR-iv”), though Sephardim often still do (10[1])not consume it with milk. (10[3])After an encounter with one of these animals, a prophet declares that (10[1])“in 40 days (10[1])Nineveh will be (10[1])overthrown.” (10[4])For 10 points, a “large” example of what animals appears in the Book of Jonah? ■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: fish [or dag; accept carp, whitefish, pike, or other specific fish; accept gefilte fish or “Gefilte Fish Line”; accept whales or cetaceans; prompt on bladder by asking “of what animal?”; reject “meat” or “flesh”] (In the original Hebrew, Jonah is described as being eaten by a “large fish,” although it is often translated as “whale.”)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Halle Friedman	NYU	Illinois	38	-5
Eve Fleisig	Berkeley A	Northwestern	50	10
Joy An	Harvard	Cornell B	53	-5
Kunaal Chandrashekar	Toronto A	Michigan	67	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Indiana	69	-5
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Texas	70	-5
Aidan Fein	Vanderbilt	North Carolina B	83	-5
Moses Kitakule	Columbia A	Chicago B	90	10
Quynh Phung	Purdue	Minnesota A	90	10
Andrew Ellis	Kentucky	South Carolina	90	10
Annabelle Yang	WUSTL A	Chicago A	90	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois	NYU	99	10
Matthew Siff	Yale A	Johns Hopkins	100	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	Toronto B	105	10
Nermeen Rahman	Chicago C	Truman State	110	10
Jack Rado	Columbia B	Penn	110	10
Lexi Terman	Rutgers	WUSTL B	110	10
Yashodev Vyas	Minnesota B	McGill	122	10
Ben Sterling	Yale B	Ottawa	125	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Georgia Tech	128	10
William Foster	Chicago D	Berkeley B	129	10
Kevin Park	Claremont Colleges	Duke	129	10
Raymond Wang	Cornell A	Stanford	129	10
Caleb Kendrick	Maryland	Brown	129	10
Hayden Prather	Florida	Arizona State	145	10
Yared Tadesse	Cornell B	Harvard	145	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Waterloo	145	10
Mitchell Shadden	Texas	North Carolina A	145	10
Eric Gunter	North Carolina B	Vanderbilt	145	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	100%	0%	21%	113.63