The similarity of a given manifold to one of these objects can be measured with the Willmore energy. A vanishing at rank 4 higher than their dimension is among few established patterns in these objects’ chaotic higher homotopy groups. A 3-dimensional one of these objects is expressed as a fiber bundle over a 2-dimensional one in the Hopf fibration. John Milnor constructed an “exotic” class of these objects, whose eversion was described by Stephen Smale. Any simply-connected closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to one of these objects by (*) Perelman’s proof of the Poincaré conjecture. A coordinate system named for these objects uses azimuthal and polar angles and has a Jacobian from Cartesian coordinates of rho squared times sine of phi. For 10 points, name these shapes consisting of all points a fixed distance away from their center. ■END■
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Yao, | Brown | BU | 22 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT | 37 | 15 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Waterloo B | 44 | 15 |
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 46 | 15 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Edinburgh | 49 | 15 |
| Will Houston | Chicago B | Illinois B | 50 | 15 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Billy's Bastion | 51 | 15 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCLA A | 54 | 15 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 57 | 15 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Waterloo C | 58 | -5 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Iowa State | 58 | 15 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Missouri | 58 | 15 |
| Alan Kappler | Claremont B | Caltech | 58 | 15 |
| Swapnil Garg | Egypt Airlines Haters | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 58 | 15 |
| Stan | Gruh | we need new names | 58 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCSD | 59 | 15 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | Toronto B | 68 | 15 |
| Ameya Bhalerao | mongeese | Quatumvirate | 68 | 15 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Toronto C | 73 | 15 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Sheffield C | 73 | 15 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State University A | Alberta | 74 | 15 |
| Alex Li | Free Agents 1 | evil women enjoyers | 74 | 15 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 75 | 15 |
| Coy Mier | Goober Gang | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 82 | 15 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Sheffield A | 82 | 15 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 84 | 15 |
| Yudai Yamazaki | Imperial B | Warwick B | 84 | 15 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Toronto Metropolitan | 85 | 15 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 85 | 15 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois C | SIUE | 85 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | WashU Charmander | 85 | 15 |
| Max Neal | Harvard | Lexington | 85 | 15 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | Illinois Orange | 85 | 15 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Mahjonng Masters | 85 | 15 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | UW B | 87 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 92 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham | 92 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland B | 95 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State D | 99 | 10 |
| Parikshit Chauhan | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Claremont A | 99 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCLA B | 99 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick C | Lancaster | 99 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Chicago A | 101 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brandeis | 101 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | CWRU | 101 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | Toronto D | 103 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto E | UBC | 103 | 10 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 104 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | LSE | 104 | 10 |
| Humzah Shaikh | George Mason A | NYU A | 109 | 10 |
| Elijah Quan | Michigan C | Pittsburgh | 109 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan D | 114 | 10 |
| Emma Victoria Byron | Rutgers | George Mason C | 116 | 10 |
| Aron Csornok | South Dakota School of Mines | Washington Connections | 118 | 10 |
| Taman Truong | Arizona State University B | Carleton | 131 | 10 |
| Theenash Sengupta | MSJ | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 133 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Ottawa A | 136 | 10 |
| Dawson Teu | Waterloo C | Simon Fraser | 136 | 10 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 136 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown | 136 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Oberlin | 136 | 10 |