This material names a female servant who works with a “Golden Boy” to guide souls across a silver bridge into heaven. To sweeten a yearly report to a figure named for this material, families rub honey on the lips of the Kitchen God. It’s not gold, but this material names a white animal that makes tteok rice cakes or medicine. A figure named for this material created a contest to cross a (*) river, for which the Cat oversleeps. The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates an animal named for this material that pounds ingredients for the elixir of immortality. This material names the pet rabbit of the moon goddess Cháng’é (“chong-UH”), as well as the deity who organized the Great Race of the Zodiac. For 10 points, the ruler of heaven in Chinese mythology is an “emperor” named for what green gemstone? ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 89% | 0% | 57.44 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 50.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 44.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 64.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 62.17 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 63% | 0% | 73.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 82.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 62.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 70.80 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 71.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | BU | 32 | 15 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 38 | 15 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | Free Agents 1 | 41 | 15 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Warwick C | 42 | 15 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 42 | 15 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Illinois A | 42 | 15 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 42 | 15 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Maryland B | 44 | 15 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brandeis | 45 | 15 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 45 | 15 |
| Daniel Ma | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 46 | 15 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Georgetown | 46 | 15 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 46 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 47 | 15 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 47 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 48 | 15 |
| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | Brown | 49 | 15 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Mahjonng Masters | 51 | 15 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 51 | 15 |
| Sky Li | Toronto C | McGill B | 52 | 15 |
| Andrew Gao | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Illinois Orange | 55 | 15 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Cambridge | 56 | 15 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto A | 56 | 15 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan A | 57 | 15 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Guelph | 58 | 15 |
| Fern Fang | evil women enjoyers | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 59 | 15 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 59 | 15 |
| Kushal Aluru | Rutgers | Haverford A | 59 | 15 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 66 | 15 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Truman State | 67 | 15 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 68 | 15 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | George Washington | 68 | 15 |
| Keefe Yang | Gruh | Auburn 2026 | 68 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | SIUE | 70 | 15 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Mac A | 72 | 10 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Iowa State | 72 | 10 |
| Elijah Quan | Michigan C | Michigan D | 74 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield B | 77 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Lancaster | 77 | 10 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Ottawa A | 77 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | Claremont A | 77 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 77 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Carleton | 77 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 77 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Billy's Bastion | 78 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | CWRU | 79 | 10 |
| Aron Csornok | South Dakota School of Mines | Arizona State University B | 79 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield C | 80 | 10 |
| Brandon Hunt | Goober Gang | MSJ | 80 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois C | Chicago B | 80 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Imperial A | 81 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UCLA A | 81 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | Simon Fraser | 82 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Washington Connections | 86 | 10 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | Art of Premature Signaling | 87 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason C | George Mason A | 89 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Birmingham | 90 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW A | 90 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD | UCSB | 106 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 119 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 128 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | Johns Hopkins B | 131 | 10 |