Samoa - 2025 ACF Fall

Tossup

Family units in this archipelago called ‘aiga feature in Leaves of the Banyan Tree by author Albert Wendt. This archipelago’s (-5[1])Rainmaker (-5[1])Mountain provides the setting for a story about the sex worker (-5[1])Sadie Thompson written by W. Somerset Maugham (“mom”). Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson moved to (10[1]-5[1])and died (-5[3])in (-5[1])this (-5[2])archipelago. (10[2]-5[4])Visits to this (10[1])archipelago’s (-5[1])Manu’a (-5[3])Islands (-5[4])informed (-5[2])works (-5[2])on (-5[1])“social organization” (-5[1])that were criticized (10[2])by (10[1])Derek (10[1])Freeman. (10[5]-5[3])A 1928 (10[5]-5[1])anthropological (10[3])work (10[4]-5[2])depicting (10[4])lessened (10[2])sexual mores (10[2]-5[2])in (10[1])this (10[1])archipelago (10[3]-5[1])was written (10[1])by (10[1])Margaret Mead. (10[12]-5[3])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[3])what Pacific (10[1]-5[1])Island (10[1])archipelago (-5[2])includes (10[1])a namesake (-5[2])“American” (10[2])territory (10[10]-5[1])led (10[4]-5[1])from (10[2])Pago (10[2]-5[1])Pago? (10[3])■END■ (10[32]0[13])

ANSWER: Samoa [or Independent State of Samoa; or Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa; accept American Samoa; accept Coming of Age in Samoa] (The Maugham story is “Rain.”)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Will Hoover	RIT A	ESF	19	-5
March Delfin	UCSD A	UCSD B	20	-5
Jacob Schildkraut	William & Mary C	Liberty A	31	-5
Charlie Weaver	Virginia Tech B	Virginia A	46	-5
Carson Kessler	Washington Pink	Washington Masu	46	10
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Vermont A	48	-5
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Atlantic	48	-5
Charlie Nicholls	Cambridge C	Cambridge E	48	-5
Anna Bocook	Louisville D	Ohio State C	49	-5
Vivian Fan	Claremont A	UCLA D	50	-5
Brendan Liaw	British Columbia A	Washington Coho	50	-5
Aedan Cooper	Ottawa A	Ottawa B	51	10
Miriam Lee	Queen's A	Brock A	51	-5
Ethen Sun	Toronto C	Toronto B	51	-5
Aris Anton	Waterloo C	McMaster B	51	-5
Nick Smemoe	UNC A	Virginia Tech A	51	10
Ben Lanahan	Clemson A	Chipola College	51	-5
Ritwik Sharma	Arizona State A	Washington Sockeye	54	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Maryland B	55	-5
Bailey Lacefield	Toronto G	Waterloo B	56	-5
Kevin Zheng	Michigan A	Michigan B	56	-5
Mahathi Veluri	UConn A	Boston University A	56	-5
Brian Qian	Illinois Canada	Purdue B	57	-5
Julia Austin	Vermont B	Williams A	57	-5
Richy Sun	Vanderbilt B	Mississippi State A	57	-5
Anirudh Terdal	LSE	Warwick	57	-5
Sri Lnu	Clemson B	Montevallo	58	-5
Martin Brandenburg	Georgia A	Emory A	58	-5
Nick Machin	UCLA A	USC B	59	-5
Leighton Karpinia	Florida Tech A	Florida B	59	-5
Jack Yesner	Brandeis Beethoven	Harvard	60	-5
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Rutgers A	62	-5
Joseph Wang	UCLA E	USC A	65	10
Penelope Graham	Williams B	Dartmouth B	65	10
Sidarth Erat	MIT A	Brown B	66	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill B	67	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Ohio State A	68	10
Reed Sexton	Michigan C	CWRU D	68	-5
Orion Brey	Louisville A	Michigan State A	68	10
Marcus Hatfield	WVU B	WVU A	68	10
Abbott Sherwin	NCSU A	William & Mary A	68	10
Tobias Cortes	Indiana A	WashU Grolars	68	-5
Brandon Hunt	Auburn B	Georgia Tech B	68	-5
Tevin Francis	Southampton	Cambridge A	68	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	70	10
Bolun Thompson	UCLA C	UC Santa Barbara	70	10
Wyatt Johnson	CWRU B	CWRU A	70	10
Elliott Gomes	Dartmouth A	Brown A	70	-5
Joyann Hua	British Columbia B	Texas	70	10
Caleb Slusher	South Carolina A	Tennessee A	70	10
Jack Piros	Illinois Orange	Indiana B	71	10
Alex Dzurick	William Woods University A	Illinois Blue	71	10
Brooks Phillips	Auburn A	Tennessee Tech	71	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Guelph A	72	10
Jaden Bandy	Rutgers B	Lehigh A	72	-5
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Penn	72	10
Suyog Vibhuti	Washington Steelhead	Washington Chinook	72	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	72	10
Robert McDonald	Durham C	Sheffield B	72	-5
Hansen Jin	Berkeley Skeleton King	Berkeley Little Prince	73	10
Charlie Ruff	McGill A	McGill C	73	10
Jacob Ergueta	Florida A	UCF A	73	10
Austin Tran	Rose-Hulman A	Purdue D	73	10
Andrew Nucci	UCLA B	Claremont B	74	10
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	Virginia Tech B	74	10
Dawson Teu	Waterloo A	Toronto A	76	10
Nico Pascual	Michigan State B	Ohio State B	76	10
Abigail Lee	Virginia Tech C	UNC D	76	-5
Austin Embry	Auburn C	Vanderbilt C	76	-5
Henry Nonnemaker	CWRU C	Michigan D	77	10
Henry Siegler	Toronto D	McMaster A	78	10
Aiden Hart	Kentucky	Pittsburgh	79	-5
Eli Young	Vassar A	Stony Brook	79	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Tufts A	79	10
Will Barton	Imperial C	Bristol	79	10
Lily Hughbanks	Purdue C	Iowa A	81	10
Saswat Sasha Tripathi	Chicago A	WashU Grizzlers	82	10
Lorie Au-Yeung	UCSC	Stanford A	84	10
Nathan Woolery	Louisville C	Michigan State D	84	10
Jonah Chancio	JMU A	William & Mary B	84	10
William Henley	Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	84	10
James Horsley	Iowa State	Wisconsin A	84	10
Jack Granahan	Brandeis Mozart	Boston College A	84	-5
Shining Sun	Boston College A	Brandeis Mozart	84	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	British Columbia C	84	-5
Bharath Ram	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech C	84	10
Niyanthi Yamunan	Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech F	84	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Vanderbilt B	84	10
Laura Bullock	Sheffield A	Edinburgh A	84	-5
Juliette Flatau	Imperial A	Cambridge D	84	10
Eric Zhu	Cornell D	Cornell A	84	10
Isaiah Schmid	Binghamton B	Cornell C	84	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	Alberta B	85	10
Roy Yang	WashU Grolars	Indiana A	86	10
Valentina Chamandy	McGill E	Carleton A	87	10
Aidan Hoffner	McMaster B	Waterloo C	87	10
Emma Gates	Brown A	Dartmouth A	87	10
Ben Spirtas	Maryland C	NYU A	89	-5
Dashiell Helmer	Wisconsin C	Michigan Tech	89	10
Sophia Peng	Rutgers C	NYU C	90	10
Akif Ismail	Williams C	Dartmouth C	91	-5
Charlotte Nicholas	Durham B	Edinburgh B	91	-5
Owen Linder	Binghamton A	RIT B	92	10
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Rochester	94	-5
Molly Oakley	Binghamton C	Rochester	94	-5
Thomas Jenkins	Michigan B	Michigan A	95	10
Vivian Adolph	UNC B	UNC C	95	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	96	10
Miles Phillips	Florida Tech B	South Florida A	96	10
Miles Spieler	Ohio State C	Louisville D	96	10
Ishan Chahande	Ohio State D	Michigan State C	96	10
Caleb Hines	Liberty A	William & Mary C	96	10
Eric Morshed	Johns Hopkins	George Mason B	96	10
Alexander Rutten	Columbia A	Princeton	96	10
Hanson Hunynh	Boston University B	Amherst B	96	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	96	10
Lucy Izabella	Edinburgh D	Durham D	96	-5
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Birmingham	96	10
Adithya Parat	McMaster C	Toronto F	97	10
Jaden Rupolo	Liberty B	NCSU B	97	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	Columbia B	97	10
Adam Chilbert	Macalester	St. Thomas	97	10
Richard D’Angelo	Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	97	-5
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	Virginia Tech C	98	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Williams C	98	10
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	Toronto I	99	-5
Tal Bowen	Durham A	Edinburgh C	99	10
Judah Solomon	Imperial D	Oxford	99	10
Sophia Schlag	Ottawa C	Carleton B	100	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	UConn A	100	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield A	100	10
Scott Sibley	UC Irvine	Claremont C	101	0
Ted Li	Claremont C	UC Irvine	101	0
Vivienne Ruemler	USC B	UCLA A	101	0
Nikola Wu	UCLA D	Claremont A	101	10
Yuv Magan	UCSD B	UCSD A	101	10
Ellie Wang	Brock A	Queen's A	101	0
Stephen Ottewell	Toronto B	Toronto C	101	10
Indiana Gee	Toronto I	Toronto H	101	10
Gavin Ge	Waterloo B	Toronto G	101	10
Matthew Andersen	Florida B	Florida Tech A	101	10
Yishak Kelkay	ERAU Daytona A	Florida State A	101	10
Elise Economou	Pittsburgh	Kentucky	101	10
Matthew Stall	CWRU D	Michigan C	101	10
Cheyenne Hewitt	Tusculum A	Liberty C	101	0
Alex Mayernick	Lehigh A	Rutgers B	101	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	George Mason A	101	10
Magnolia Schnirman Barría	NYU B	Lehigh B	101	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Maryland A	101	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	Maryland C	101	10
John Shelly	Rowan	Vassar B	101	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	Chicago B	101	0
Eric Lipsutz	Chicago B	Purdue A	101	10
Beckett Pursey	Purdue B	Illinois Canada	101	10
Will Demos	Wisconsin B	Minnesota	101	10
Andrew Park	Harvard	Brandeis Beethoven	101	10
Will Hamilton	Vermont A	Tufts B	101	10
Marc Greco	Williams A	Vermont B	101	10
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	Alberta A	101	10
Yoyo Liu	British Columbia C	Washington State	101	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	British Columbia A	101	10
Edward Zhang	Vanderbilt C	Auburn C	101	0
Jeremy Scurlock	Chipola College	Clemson A	101	10
Andrew Wilson	Montevallo	Clemson B	101	10
Nelson Adams-Riley	Sewanne	Clemson C	101	0
Andy Truette	Clemson C	Sewanne	101	0
Daniel Chen	Emory A	Georgia A	101	10
Madeline Painter	Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	101	10
Alex Miller	Edinburgh B	Durham B	101	10
Rob Morris	Durham D	Edinburgh D	101	10
Stephen Donoghue	Sheffield B	Durham C	101	0
Nicholas Hall	Cambridge E	Cambridge C	101	0
Jolie Yeh	Warwick	LSE	101	10
Sammy Carstens	Rochester	Binghamton C	101	0
Sammy Carstens	Rochester	Binghamton C	101	0
Gregory Stone	ESF	RIT A	101	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	80%	80%	100.25
UK (South)	UK	7	86%	29%	87.83
Northern California	US	4	100%	0%	80.75
Southern California	US	7	71%	43%	82.20
Eastern Canada (1)	US	5	100%	0%	75.60
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	89%	56%	89.13
Florida	US	4	100%	25%	92.75
Great Lakes	US	12	100%	33%	83.33
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	89%	33%	82.88
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	10	100%	20%	93.40
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	2	100%	100%	101.00
Midwest	US	9	100%	22%	83.33
North	US	4	100%	0%	92.75
Northeast	US	11	100%	64%	88.91
Pacific	US	8	100%	38%	78.75
Southeast	US	13	85%	54%	87.73
Upstate NY	US	6	67%	50%	90.25