Four figures tasked with moving this object are so large that journeying from their shoulders to their ears would take 700 years. One passage claims that the Sun goes beneath this object before receiving permission to rise. In many du’as, God is often described as “lord of” seven places and of this “magnificent” object. This object, which is found just above al-Firdaus, was located “upon the waters” before creation according to Surah 11. God is “ever-living,” “self-sustaining,” and never overtaken by “drowsiness nor sleep,” while this object “extends over the heavens and the earth,” according to a passage often recited to grant protection from jinns and devils. That 255th verse of Surah al-Baqarah (“SOO-ruh ahl-BUH-kuh-ruh”) is named after, for 10 points, what object that symbolizes God’s kingly authority? ■END■
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 113.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 38% | 0% | 63% | 101.33 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 56% | 0% | 22% | 116.20 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 33% | 0% | 17% | 124.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 89.50 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 121.25 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 109.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duncan Griffiths | William & Mary A | UNC C | 37 | -5 |
| Andrew Hanna | Penn | NYU A | 46 | -5 |
| Albert Su | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 53 | -5 |
| Navtej Singh | Michigan B | Michigan C | 53 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Cambridge C | 68 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 69 | 10 |
| Ian Dewan | Kiel | Imperial B | 71 | -5 |
| Sam Foo | Cambridge A | Bristol | 72 | -5 |
| Joshua Cruice | Oxford C | Imperial A | 75 | -5 |
| Amogh Kulkarni | Geodesic | MTSU | 75 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 89 | 10 |
| Jonathan Shauf | UNC B | Liberty A | 90 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Edinburgh | KCL | 90 | 10 |
| Andrew Kelley | Kentucky | Vanderbilt A | 93 | -5 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty C | Maryland C | 106 | -5 |
| Anwitha Vempali | Iowa B | Iowa A | 106 | -5 |
| Ethan Strombeck | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 112 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 114 | 10 |
| Munir Siddiqui | Maryland B | Virginia A | 114 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | John Jay | 115 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | Vassar | 118 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | Minnesota B | 120 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Cedarville | 120 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | Texas A | 123 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham B | Durham A | 124 | -5 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland C | Liberty C | 125 | 10 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial B | Kiel | 125 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Cambridge A | 126 | 0 |
| Rose Conway | Cambridge C | Oxford B | 126 | 0 |
| Michael Kohn | Durham A | Durham B | 126 | 0 |
| Forrest Weintraub | Columbia A | Haverford | 126 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Penn | 126 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Rowan | 126 | 0 |
| Ashish Kumbhardare | Rowan | Columbia B | 126 | 0 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama | Harding | 126 | 10 |
| Alexander Wyrick | Tennessee | Vanderbilt B | 126 | 10 |
| Alan Wu | Vanderbilt A | Kentucky | 126 | 0 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke A | GWU A | 126 | 0 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | GWU A | Duke A | 126 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty B | Virginia C | 126 | 0 |
| Luke Schaarschuch | Virginia C | Liberty B | 126 | 0 |
| Connor Mayers | Maryland A | Virginia B | 126 | 0 |
| Jim Fan | UNC A | Roanoke College A | 126 | 10 |
| Logan Mitchell | JMU B | UNC D | 126 | 0 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC D | JMU B | 126 | 0 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford C | Berkeley C | 126 | 0 |
| Enoch Yuen | Imperial A | Oxford C | 126 | 0 |
| Thomas Hart | Warwick | Sheffield | 126 | 0 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Warwick | 126 | 0 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa A | Iowa B | 126 | 0 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | Rice A | 126 | 10 |
| Cameron Williams | Appalachian State | Sorbonne | 126 | 0 |
| Cormac Beirne | Sorbonne | Appalachian State | 126 | 0 |
| William Dawson | UBC A | Texas A&M A | 126 | 0 |
| Deepak Muthyala | Texas A&M A | UBC A | 126 | 0 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State A | Texas A&M B | 126 | 0 |
| Daniel Neylon | Texas A&M B | Michigan State A | 126 | 0 |
| Emmett Bicknell | Cedarville | Ohio State A | 126 | 0 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Michigan A | Kenyon | 126 | 10 |