In a performing art originated by this ethnicity, two balls are connected by a string and twirled over musical accompaniment. To incentivize cultural tourism, this ethnicity granted a 99-year lease on a geyser hotspot near the destroyed Pink and White Terraces. The geographer Evelyn Stokes appeared on American television to demonstrate the “long” style of this ethnicity’s art of poi swinging. After three days of mourning at a marae, recently deceased members of this ethnicity are buried in (*) tangi funeral rites. Raymond Firth classified four levels of this people’s genealogy, which is recited to enforce cultural identity and lend authority to personal mana. Before rugby games, the All Blacks perform rhythmic shouts over feet stamping as part of this ethnicity’s haka dance. For 10 points, name these indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of New Zealand. ■END■
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| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 18 | 15 |
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| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | Brandeis | 48 | 15 |
| Max Lin | we need new names | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 53 | -5 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 60 | 15 |
| Danielle Webb | SIUE | WashU Bulbasaur | 60 | 15 |
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| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 62 | -5 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago A | WashU Squirtle | 63 | -5 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Waterloo B | 65 | -5 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | MSJ | 68 | 15 |
| Alan Fan | Mahjonng Masters | mongeese | 68 | 15 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Edinburgh | 68 | 15 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Arizona State University A | 70 | 15 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Imperial A | 70 | 15 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill A | Toronto C | 70 | -5 |
| Annika | Claremont B | Jason B | 79 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | MIT | 80 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan D | 80 | -5 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Sheffield A | 80 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | NYU A | Rutgers | 82 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa A | McGill B | 82 | -5 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | Simon Fraser | 82 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | UW A | 102 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Washington Connections | 102 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 104 | 10 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Toronto E | 104 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Washington | 105 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | NYU B | 105 | 10 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Egypt Airlines Haters | 105 | 10 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | Claremont A | 105 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 105 | -5 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 106 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 107 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | George Mason B | 107 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU | George Mason C | 108 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Maryland B | 108 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Truman State | 108 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 108 | 10 |
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Gruh | 108 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Oberlin | 108 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 108 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Pittsburgh | 108 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCLA B | 108 | 10 |
| Ethan Rhodes | Birmingham | Sheffield C | 108 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto B | Toronto A | 108 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago B | 109 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Arizona State University B | 109 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Lancaster | 109 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto D | 109 | 10 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 110 | 10 |
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| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick C | Warwick B | 110 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | Mac A | 110 | 10 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 110 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brown | 111 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Goober Gang | Auburn 2026 | 112 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | Boston University | RIT | 113 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | South Dakota School of Mines | 113 | 10 |
| Will Snyder | Haverford B | Johns Hopkins B | 114 | -5 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | UCSD | 118 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU Squirtle | Chicago A | 119 | 10 |
| Ivan Karp | UCLA A | Caltech | 120 | 10 |
| Jeevika Setzer | Johns Hopkins B | Haverford B | 132 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | Art of Premature Signaling | 132 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Ohio State A | 133 | 10 |
| Liam Mooney | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | evil women enjoyers | 133 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | we need new names | 133 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | McGill A | 133 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Ottawa A | 133 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Toronto Metropolitan | 133 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Chicago B | 167 | 10 |