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 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 42 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford L | Stanford A | 42 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Diamond Brandeis | 42 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Luke Zhang | Emory A | Auburn A | 42 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Carabrandeis | 51 | 10 |
| Vishesh Verma | Michigan State A | Pitt B | 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 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | WUSTL A | 57 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | WUSTL A | 57 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Manchester | 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 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Bristol A | 74 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Francis Hanf | Kenyon A | Pitt A | 76 | -5 |
| Victor Bender | Penn State B | Rutgers A | 77 | -5 |
| Dylan Dexter | Ole Miss | Texas C | 90 | -5 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 90 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame | UIUC D | 120 | 10 |
| Jacob | OSU C | Michigan D | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Sharp | LSE B | Edinburgh | 120 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Stanford M | 120 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | A Brandeis Supreme | Boston University A | 121 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Amherst A | 121 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Brandeises Brew | 121 | 10 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Yale B | 121 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue D | Indiana B | 121 | 0 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UIUC B | 121 | 10 |
| Reilly Melville | Purdue B | UIUC C | 121 | 0 |
| Jackson Hopper | Mississippi State | NYU B | 121 | 10 |
| Gia Harvey-Slager | Texas C | Ole Miss | 121 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory B | Alabama A | 121 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt A | Kenyon A | 121 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State University A | UF D | 121 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Princeton A | 121 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn B | Rowan A | 121 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers A | Penn State B | 121 | 10 |