One end of a bridge connecting this city with its northern neighbor houses the Woodlands Checkpoint. The Ayer Rajah and Pan-Island Expressways both begin in this city’s planning area of Tuas. In 2023, this city relocated an aviary from its former location north of Jurong Island. A nature park in this city on the island of Pulau Ujong has a nature park featuring so-called “supertrees” is called (*) Gardens by the Bay. The Suntec City mall in this city is a block away from the original Raffles Hotel, which is named after its founder. This city still employs corporal punishment in the form of caning. The world’s tallest indoor waterfall is housed in this city’s Changi Airport. The Johor Strait separates this city from the mainland. For 10 points, identify this city-state located off the end of the Malay peninsula. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 78% | 0% | 47.22 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 53.25 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 67.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 63% | 0% | 51.38 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 66.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 62.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 21.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 50.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 89.40 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 71.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 85.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 33% | 75.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | mongeese | 18 | 15 |
| Andrew Gao | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Auburn 2026 | 18 | 15 |
| James Fan | Toronto E | Toronto D | 18 | 15 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A. | Imperial B | 21 | 15 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Simon Fraser | 21 | 15 |
| Anya Srinivasan | UW A | UW B | 28 | 15 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 30 | 15 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Harvard | 30 | 15 |
| Chansol Park | NYU C | George Mason C | 30 | 15 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Warwick A | 31 | 15 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSB | 45 | -5 |
| Robert Wang | evil women enjoyers | Egypt Airlines Haters | 45 | 15 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | we need new names | 45 | 15 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU | George Mason A | 45 | 15 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Goober Gang | 45 | 15 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Guelph | 45 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 48 | -5 |
| Jaik Havlick | Arizona State University A | Carleton | 48 | 15 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Master and Margaritaville | 48 | 15 |
| Keefe Yang | Gruh | Mahjonng Masters | 48 | 15 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | RIT | 51 | 15 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | Iowa State | 54 | 15 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Sheffield B | 57 | 15 |
| Ethan Rhodes | Birmingham | Manchester | 57 | -5 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | South Dakota School of Mines | 62 | 15 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield A | Edinburgh | 62 | 15 |
| Drew Schreiner | Missouri | WashU Bulbasaur | 62 | 15 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Arizona State University B | 63 | 15 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCLA A | 64 | 15 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 64 | 15 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC | Ottawa A | 64 | 15 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago A | Illinois A | 64 | 15 |
| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | Belmont | 66 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis | 66 | 15 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | SIUE | 66 | 15 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Free Agents 1 | 66 | 15 |
| Edward Li | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic University of America | 67 | 10 |
| Liam Mooney | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 67 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Illinois C | 67 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 70 | 10 |
| Daniel Chung | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Art of Premature Signaling | 70 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Warwick C | 70 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 70 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | George Mason B | 70 | 10 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington | Maryland A | 70 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 70 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | NYU A | Maryland B | 70 | 10 |
| Owen Yeh-Lee | Oberlin | Ohio State D | 72 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 72 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 73 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | McGill A | 73 | 10 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | Claremont B | 74 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Mac A | 74 | 10 |
| Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 85 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 86 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | Caltech | 86 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Haverford B | 86 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | WashU Squirtle | 86 | 10 |
| Nathan Ouyang | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 89 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Too much from you lately | 91 | 10 |
| Andrew McKenzie | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 97 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Ohio State C | 97 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | UCSD | 103 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Birmingham | 103 | 10 |
| Boru Gao | UCSB | girl 15 whale i mean they | 124 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Lancaster | 131 | 10 |