Bonus
Scholarly work by Don Moynihan and Pamela Herd inspired Biden administration guidance from this federal office on reducing “administrative burden.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Christian nationalist Russell Vought (“vote”) now heads what office, which oversees the allocation of funds across the executive branch?
ANSWER: Office of Management and Budget [or OMB; prompt on Executive Office of the President; prompt on White House]
[10e] Moynihan and Herd teach at the Ford School of Public Policy in this Midwest state. The coiner of the phrase “procedure fetish,” Nicholas Bagley, was chief counsel to its governor Gretchen Whitmer.
ANSWER: Michigan [accept University of Michigan]
[10h] This Obama-era project manager, co-founder of Code for America, and Niskanen Center fellow discussed administrative burden in her book Recoding America, which argues that government should take lessons from agile software development.
ANSWER: Jennifer Pahlka
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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chicago A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Chicago B | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Cornell A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Florida | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Georgia State | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Georgia Tech | Toronto C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Illinois B | Winona State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
Indiana | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Minnesota | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
NYU | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
North Carolina A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
North Carolina B | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Ohio State | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Penn State | Yale | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Texas | Harvard | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Toronto A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Toronto B | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
UC Berkeley B | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
UCF | Maryland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Vanderbilt | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Virginia | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
WUSTL A | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Waterloo A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Waterloo B | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 17.92 | 96% | 75% | 8% |