old people - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. These people are the focus of the initiative AHWIN (“AH-win”), which awarded a 2022 innovation prize to ORANGE LINKS for fingernail QR codes to aid them. In 2000, the ten-year “Gold Plan” for these people expanded with the LCTI program. Until 2015, some of these people received a costly drinking cup for a holiday (10[1])that falls on September’s “Happy Monday” during Silver Week. Dan (10[1])Buettner (10[1])identified lessons from a “hotspot” of these people, (10[1])like moai groups (10[1])and hara hachi bu, in writings on Okinawa’s “Blue (10[2])Zone.” (10[1]-5[1])Annoyance (10[1])at these people (10[1])inspired the terms kaigo (10[1]-5[1])jigoku (-5[1])(“KYE-go JEE-go-koo”) and rougai (“ROH-guy”). Kane (“KAH-nay”) Tanaka was a record holder among (10[1])these people, (10[3])whose growing economic cost (-5[1])reduces the potential support ratio and raises (10[1])Japan’s (10[1])dependency (10[2])ratio. (10[1])For 10 points, “silver democracy” refers to the disproportionate welfare given to what large segment of Japan’s population? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: old people [or elderly, seniors, geriatric, long-lived, or supercentenarians; accept grandparents, dementia patients, Alzheimer’s patients, retirees, pensioners, or equivalents of any; accept toshiyori, oi, uba, obāsan, or ojīsan; accept roujin or roujo or roufu until “rougai” is read; accept Respect for the Aged Day or Keirō no Hi or Toshiyori no Hi; prompt on patients, sick, ill, or equivalents by asking “with what other trait?”; prompt on parents] (Clues include the Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative and long-term care insurance.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Amith Punyala	WUSTL B	Duke	59	10
Ryan Sun	Berkeley B	South Carolina	69	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan	Maryland	70	10
Matt Jackson	Chicago A	Chicago B	78	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Cornell A	81	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Berkeley A	90	10
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Texas	90	10
Chris Sims	Northwestern	Illinois	91	-5
Owen Mimno	NYU	Yale A	91	10
Charles Hang	WUSTL A	Minnesota A	92	10
Jack Rado	Columbia B	Florida	95	10
Yashodev Vyas	Minnesota B	Cornell B	99	10
Andrew Kelley	Kentucky	North Carolina B	99	-5
Andrew Zeng	Stanford	Columbia A	100	-5
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	Rutgers	109	10
Akshay Seetharam	Claremont Colleges	Penn	111	10
William Houston	Chicago D	Truman State	111	10
Marcus Forbes-Green	Toronto B	Yale B	111	10
Liam Starnes	Chicago C	Harvard	115	-5
Jaik Havlick	Arizona State	Virginia	122	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Purdue	123	10
Raymond Chen	Toronto A	Georgia Tech	124	10
Aidan Fein	Vanderbilt	McGill	124	10
Megan Wang	Brown	Johns Hopkins	125	10
Graham Troy	North Carolina B	Kentucky	143	10
Jake Greer	Harvard	Chicago C	144	10
Max Brodsky	Illinois	Northwestern	144	10
Moses Kitakule	Columbia A	Stanford	144	10
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Chicago B	147	0
Robert Condron	Chicago B	North Carolina A	147	0

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	25	96%	0%	16%	106.21