Question

An 18-year-old member of this religious group allegedly encountered a caravan of the “Masters of the Heart.” After viewing a set of facsimiles of a manuscript chained to the wall near the Bodleian (“BOD-lee-in”) Library’s entrance, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil (“yah-SANT onk-TEEL”) visited these people in the midst of a controversy over an intercalary month in the Kadmi calendar. A leader of these people legendarily dissolved sugar in a glass of milk (10[2])to demonstrate to a ruler (10[1])how these people (-5[1])would (10[1])enrich (-5[1])his land. (10[2]-5[1])A “science of ecstasy” practiced by the Ilm-e-Khshnoom school of these people originated in the city of Surat. This ethnoreligious group’s (-5[1])members historically made use of Doongerwadis (-5[1])(“DOON-ger-WAH-dees”), such as one on Malabar Hill in Gujarat (“GOO-juh-rot”), in a practice that has largely declined due (10[1])to a national (10[1])vulture (10[5])crisis. For 10 points, name this ethnoreligious group who (10[1])place their dead on Towers of Silence throughout (10[1])India, per the tradition of (10[1])Zoroastrianism. (10[3]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Parsis (“PAR-sees”) [or Parsees; prompt on Indian Zoroastrians or Pakistani Zoroastrians until “Zoroastrianism” is read; prompt on Persians or Iranians or Iranis]
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Summary

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matt JacksonChicago AHouston A6710
Quynh PhungPurdue AToronto A6710
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BGeorgia Tech A7210
Yash MandaviaIllinois AMIT A75-5
Tanis NielsenClaremont AStanford A7610
Brad MacLaineTexas AMcGill A77-5
Alana DickeyVirginia AChicago B79-5
Gideon KpurubuVanderbilt AMaryland A7910
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AHarvard A7910
Jason HongBrown AMinnesota B100-5
Albert ZhangColumbia BSouth Carolina A106-5
Christopher SimsNorthwestern ANYU A12310
Ani PerumallaPenn State AChicago C12610
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BCornell B12710
Graham CopeFlorida AIndiana A12710
Lexi TermanRutgers BColumbia A12710
Vittal BhatNorth Carolina AUC Berkeley A12710
Conor ThompsonIowa State ACornell A12710
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AImperial A13610
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BYale A14410
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AColumbia B14910
John MarvinChicago BVirginia A15010
Grace LiuMIT AIllinois A15010
Puna EkkaMinnesota BBrown A1500
Kevin FanMcGill ATexas A15010