At one site associated with this archeological culture, a sacrificial bog preserved a large collection of wooden busts depicting “elongated men.” A cleft head, almond-shaped eyes, and a downturned mouth are characteristic of this culture’s depictions of what are thought to be “were-jaguars.” A set of glyphs inscribed on the Cascajal Block suggest that this culture independently invented writing. This culture’s creation of rubber balls may indicate their invention of a regionally popular ball game. Matthew and Marion Stirling led excavations at this culture’s sites of Tres Zapotes and La Venta. This culture created at least 17 massive basalt artifacts that likely served as portraits of rulers. For 10 points, name this Mesoamerican culture known for creating sculptures of colossal heads. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 68.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 91.40 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 68.17 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 95.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 56% | 82.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 79.33 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 73.63 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 57.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 87.20 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 80.25 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 71.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford M | Berkeley C | 25 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Yale C | 29 | 10 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | Bard A | Johns Hopkins B | 29 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale B | Williams A | 31 | -5 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech D | 39 | 10 |
| Matthew Siff | Yale A | Tufts A | 42 | 10 |
| Arthur Gayden | UChicago A | UChicago C | 42 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | UIUC A | WashU D | 42 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan State B | 42 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Diamond Brandeis | 42 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 42 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford L | Stanford A | 42 | 10 |
| Luke Zhang | Emory A | Auburn A | 42 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 42 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Mississippi State | 42 | -5 |
| Luca Balescu | Texas D | NYU A | 42 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | Colorado College | 42 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | UF B | UF E | 42 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU B | Miami | 46 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | UIUC C | Purdue B | 46 | -5 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Cambridge A | 46 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF D | Florida State University A | 47 | -5 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Iowa | 49 | 10 |
| Vishesh Verma | Michigan State A | Pitt B | 51 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Carabrandeis | 51 | 10 |
| Aaron Garcia | Arkansas | Vassar B | 51 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | CWRU A | Michigan C | 52 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 52 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Manchester | 57 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | WUSTL A | 57 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | WUSTL A | 57 | 10 |
| Max Wood | Brandeises Brew | Brown A | 58 | -5 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill E | Texas A | 61 | -5 |
| Owyn Noble | Purdue C | WashU C | 64 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | UF A | UF F | 65 | 10 |
| Rajat Sethi | Northeastern A | Tufts B | 66 | -5 |
| Daniel | Michigan D | OSU C | 66 | -5 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech F | Clemson A | 66 | 10 |
| Jasin Cekinmez | Princeton A | Columbia B | 66 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | UIUC B | SIUE A | 68 | -5 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | UChicago D | 68 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | UIUC D | Notre Dame | 68 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Alabama A | 69 | 10 |
| Tom Haines | Durham A | Southampton A | 71 | 10 |
| Edward Fogel | Birmingham | Cambridge D | 71 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Southampton B | 73 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | Boston University A | A Brandeis Supreme | 74 | -5 |
| Greg Myles | Edinburgh | LSE B | 74 | -5 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 74 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Penn B | 74 | -5 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Bristol A | 74 | 10 |
| Francis Hanf | Kenyon A | Pitt A | 76 | -5 |
| Victor Bender | Penn State B | Rutgers A | 77 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 90 | 10 |
| Dylan Dexter | Ole Miss | Texas C | 90 | -5 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech F | Emory B | 91 | 10 |
| Derek Fino | Clark A | Boston University B | 92 | 10 |
| Anthony Lovegren | UCF A | Florida Tech B | 92 | 10 |
| Trenton Burges | Indiana B | Purdue D | 96 | -5 |
| Robert Merchant | Alabama A | Emory B | 99 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Oxford B | 99 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Auburn C | 99 | 10 |
| Graham | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 102 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Oxford A | 102 | 10 |
| Ivonne Zhou | Penn A | Rutgers C | 104 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | McGill E | 106 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Florida Tech A | UCF B | 113 | -5 |
| Ethan Siskel | Tufts B | Northeastern A | 114 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF B | Florida Tech A | 116 | 10 |
| Connor McClelland | Miami | WashU B | 117 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Stanford M | 120 | 10 |
| Jacob | OSU C | Michigan D | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Sharp | LSE B | Edinburgh | 120 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame | UIUC D | 120 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | A Brandeis Supreme | Boston University A | 121 | 10 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Yale B | 121 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory B | Alabama A | 121 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers A | Penn State B | 121 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue D | Indiana B | 121 | 0 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UIUC B | 121 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt A | Kenyon A | 121 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Amherst A | 121 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Brandeises Brew | 121 | 10 |
| Reilly Melville | Purdue B | UIUC C | 121 | 0 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Princeton A | 121 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn B | Rowan A | 121 | 10 |
| Jackson Hopper | Mississippi State | NYU B | 121 | 10 |
| Gia Harvey-Slager | Texas C | Ole Miss | 121 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State University A | UF D | 121 | 10 |