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 |
| Marleyna Parrett | George Mason C | George Mason A | 23 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 23 | -5 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Birmingham | 23 | -5 |
| Matthew Faberman | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 23 | 15 |
| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 23 | 15 |
| 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 |
| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | Goober Gang | 35 | -5 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan B | Michigan A | 35 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Billy's Bastion | 35 | -5 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | NYU C | 35 | -5 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | Toronto B | 40 | -5 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 42 | -5 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | Johns Hopkins B | 49 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 49 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Georgetown | 73 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 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 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 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 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 74 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | Free Agents 1 | 75 | 10 |
| Daniel Ma | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 75 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Mason Lack | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 92 | 10 |
| Victor Pavao | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | evil women enjoyers | 92 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | Waterloo A | 92 | -5 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | CWRU | 93 | -5 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Truman State | 98 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield C | 98 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | UBC | 98 | 10 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | Mac A | 101 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick C | Edinburgh | 108 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Carleton | 111 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 111 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial A | LSE | 112 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | Claremont A | 114 | 10 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | NYU B | 114 | 10 |
| Aron Csornok | South Dakota School of Mines | Arizona State University B | 114 | 10 |
| Akshath Sivachidhambaram | Illinois Orange | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 114 | 10 |
| Zeke Collins | Goober Gang | MSJ | 114 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 114 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Maryland B | 114 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Ottawa A | 114 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 127 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Imperial B | 127 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp | UCLA A | UCLA B | 127 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 128 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | George Mason C | 128 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Illinois B | 128 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 128 | 10 |
| Lucia Gellert | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 128 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Cambridge | 128 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 128 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 128 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 128 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Brandeis | 128 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Johns Hopkins A | 128 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Guelph | 128 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 128 | 10 |