Note to players: Common or scientific name acceptable. These plants are classified by a system named for Ren-Chang Ching. An aquatic genus of these plants that is used as a biofertilizer for rice for its ability to fix nitrogen is named Azolla. The gametophyte stage of these plants is a heart-shaped structure called the prothallus. These plants undergo circinate vernation, in which their crozier-shaped (*) fiddleheads expand. These plants evolved to grow in low-light conditions during their namesake “great radiation” in the late Cretaceous period. This group of plants includes the Marattiales and the Equisetales, which are called horsetails. These plants display brown dots called sori (“sore-ee”) on their undersides. For 10 points, name these seedless vascular plants that reproduce by releasing spores from their fronds. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 22% | 33% | 90.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 54.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 84.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.88 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 80.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 104.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 65.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 79.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 93.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 90.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0.00 |
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Brandeis | 24 | 15 |
| Kushal Aluru | Rutgers | George Mason A | 38 | -5 |
| Scarlett Rutter | Claremont B | girl 15 whale i mean they | 38 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 41 | -5 |
| David Zhang | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 43 | -5 |
| Fern Fang | evil women enjoyers | Auburn 2026 | 43 | -5 |
| Theenash Sengupta | MSJ | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 47 | -5 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Illinois A | 51 | 15 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | Carleton | 51 | 15 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | Claremont A | 52 | 15 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins B | Georgetown | 54 | -5 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 54 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Iowa State | 54 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Mahjonng Masters | 54 | 15 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 54 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | evil women enjoyers | 58 | 15 |
| Owen Yeh-Lee | Oberlin | Michigan D | 59 | 15 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Lexington | 65 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | MIT | 65 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Harvard | 65 | 10 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 65 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Master and Margaritaville | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 65 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Illinois C | 65 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 65 | 10 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Toronto A | 65 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 65 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | South Dakota School of Mines | 65 | 10 |
| Alex Li | Free Agents 1 | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 65 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Manchester | 65 | 10 |
| Laura Bullock | Sheffield B | LSE | 65 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick C | Imperial | 65 | -5 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto D | Toronto Metropolitan | 65 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | NYU C | 67 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Mac A | 68 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason C | Maryland B | 68 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Toronto E | 68 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Too much from you lately | 71 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Waterloo B | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Ribar | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 76 | -5 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Goober Gang | 76 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | WashU Bulbasaur | 79 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan C | 83 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 83 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 87 | -5 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Cambridge | 90 | -5 |
| Winnie Nutkowitz | Illinois Orange | Gruh | 90 | 10 |
| Samay Math | WashU Charmander | Truman State | 97 | -5 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | UCSB | 97 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCLA A | 97 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UCSD | 97 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Ottawa A | 97 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan B | 97 | 10 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A | Warwick B | 99 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto C | UBC | 100 | 10 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Quatumvirate | 102 | 10 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | McGill B | 103 | 10 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford B | George Washington | 104 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | SIUE | 107 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 110 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | CWRU | 113 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Mason B | 115 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | NYU B | 121 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont B | 123 | 10 |
| Steven Yuan | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Egypt Airlines Haters | 123 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Lancaster | 123 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW B | 123 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | Rutgers | 124 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 124 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 124 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Charmander | 124 | 10 |
| Danel Fernandez | Ohio State C | Ohio State B | 124 | 0 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 124 | 0 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | MSJ | 124 | 10 |
| Fierro Grey | we need new names | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 124 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Sheffield A | 124 | 10 |