A Queen Mary University study found that some of these animals would roll balls without any reward or training, suggesting an inclination to “play.” The “cuckoo” type of these animals are distinguished by their klepto·parasitic nature. Diseases such as BQCV, IAPV, and DWV can be parasitically transmitted to these animals. Some of these animals exhibit a behavioral trait abbreviated VSH, a type of “hygiene” in which they remove pupae infected by the (*) Varroa mite. These animals employ a 45 degree “run” to indicate the direction of foraging discoveries in relation to the sun. Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for elucidating the Tanzprache used in the waggle dance of one type of these insects. For 10 points, name these insects, of which only around 4% produce honey. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 11% | 33% | 87.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 114.25 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 60.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 38% | 92.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 76.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 25% | 38% | 100.13 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 60% | 84.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 119.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 128.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 88.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 113.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | UCSB | 21 | 15 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto A | Toronto D | 21 | 15 |
| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 23 | 15 |
| Marleyna Parrett | George Mason C | George Mason A | 23 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 23 | -5 |
| Matthew Faberman | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 23 | 15 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Birmingham | 23 | -5 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | Gruh | 25 | 15 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 29 | -5 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU Squirtle | SIUE | 29 | 15 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | Art of Premature Signaling | 34 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Billy's Bastion | 35 | -5 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan B | Michigan A | 35 | -5 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | NYU C | 35 | -5 |
| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | Goober Gang | 35 | -5 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | Toronto B | 40 | -5 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 42 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 49 | -5 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | Johns Hopkins B | 49 | 15 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Iowa State | 58 | 15 |
| Kushal Aluru | Rutgers | Haverford A | 68 | 15 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Illinois Orange | 69 | -5 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA B | UCLA A | 71 | -5 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis | Harvard | 71 | -5 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 72 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | Claremont B | 73 | -5 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Master and Margaritaville | 73 | 10 |
| Gabe Dubowski | Illinois C | Chicago B | 73 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois A | 73 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 73 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 73 | -5 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Georgetown | 73 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | UW A | 73 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | we need new names | 73 | 10 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 73 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 74 | 10 |
| Daniel Ma | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 75 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | Free Agents 1 | 75 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill B | 76 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Warwick A | 79 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield B | 80 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 84 | 10 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | Caltech | 87 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Lexington | 87 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Michigan D | 91 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT | 92 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Washington Connections | 92 | 10 |
| Victor Pavao | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | evil women enjoyers | 92 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | Waterloo A | 92 | -5 |
| Mason Lack | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 92 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | CWRU | 93 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield C | 98 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | UBC | 98 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Truman State | 98 | 10 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | Mac A | 101 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick C | Edinburgh | 108 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 111 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Carleton | 111 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial A | LSE | 112 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | Claremont A | 114 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Ottawa A | 114 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 114 | 10 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | NYU B | 114 | 10 |
| Aron Csornok | South Dakota School of Mines | Arizona State University B | 114 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Maryland B | 114 | 10 |
| Akshath Sivachidhambaram | Illinois Orange | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 114 | 10 |
| Zeke Collins | Goober Gang | MSJ | 114 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp | UCLA A | UCLA B | 127 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 127 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Imperial B | 127 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 128 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 128 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Guelph | 128 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 128 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 128 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Brandeis | 128 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Johns Hopkins A | 128 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | George Mason C | 128 | 10 |
| Lucia Gellert | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 128 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 128 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Illinois B | 128 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 128 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Cambridge | 128 | 10 |