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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Zhang | Toronto A | Toronto D | 21 | 15 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | UCSB | 21 | 15 |
| Matthew Faberman | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 23 | 15 |
| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 23 | 15 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 23 | -5 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Birmingham | 23 | -5 |
| Marleyna Parrett | George Mason C | George Mason A | 23 | -5 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | Gruh | 25 | 15 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU Squirtle | SIUE | 29 | 15 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 29 | -5 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | Art of Premature Signaling | 34 | -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 |
| 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 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis | Harvard | 71 | -5 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA B | UCLA A | 71 | -5 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 72 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 73 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 73 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | Claremont B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Lexington | 87 | 10 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | Caltech | 87 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Michigan D | 91 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT | 92 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | Waterloo A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 114 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Ottawa A | 114 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | Claremont A | 114 | 10 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | NYU B | 114 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Maryland 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 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Imperial B | 127 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp | UCLA A | UCLA B | 127 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 127 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 128 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Illinois 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 128 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Cambridge | 128 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Guelph | 128 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 128 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 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 |