This instrument was played on the original lineup for the Maha•vishnu Orchestra by Rick Laird. This instrument doubles the opening keyboard melody of the Chick Corea song “Got a Match?” as played by John Patitucci. Another player of this instrument asks “you know the lonesome road, don’t you?” to the title “Judas” in a track that appears on her album Emily’s D+Evolution. After a synth intro, this instrument plays a high melody with drums to open (*) “Birdland.” This instrument is played by Esperanza Spalding. Another player of this instrument replaced Miroslav Vitouš in the band Weather Report and played one of these instruments “of Doom” with the frets removed. For 10 points, name this instrument played by Jaco Pastorius, a low-pitched guitar. ■END■
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 90.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 62.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 34.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 100.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 80% | 117.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 61.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 97.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 7 | 86% | 29% | 29% | 88.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | George Mason B | 29 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Waterloo A | 34 | 15 |
| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Master and Margaritaville | 34 | 15 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Manchester | 60 | 15 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Birmingham | 60 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | girl 15 whale i mean they | 61 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Billy's Bastion | 61 | 15 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | RIT | 61 | 15 |
| Max Brodsky | Illinois A | Truman State | 65 | 15 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 70 | 15 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Catholic University of America | 76 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Edinburgh | 81 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | SIUE | 81 | -5 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW B | 82 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Iowa State | 82 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard | 83 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Rutgers | 83 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 83 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State University A | UW A | 84 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Lancaster | 87 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | NYU A | Georgetown | 102 | -5 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Missouri | 106 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis | BU | 108 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | CWRU | Haverford B | 108 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick C | Imperial B | 108 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 111 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | Too much from you lately | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 111 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 111 | -5 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brown | 111 | 10 |
| Jack Piros | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 111 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington | 115 | -5 |
| Rhys Lewis | Sheffield A | Warwick A | 117 | -5 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Charmander | Chicago B | 118 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 121 | 10 |
| Matthew Ribar | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 121 | 10 |
| Daniel Carlton | George Mason B | George Mason A | 121 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | South Dakota School of Mines | 122 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 122 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 122 | 0 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 122 | 0 |
| Aiden Wegener | George Washington | Maryland B | 122 | 0 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | NYU A | 122 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Warwick C | 122 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Toronto B | 122 | 0 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Illinois B | 122 | 10 |