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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Gao | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Auburn 2026 | 18 | 15 |
| James Fan | Toronto E | Toronto D | 18 | 15 |
| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | mongeese | 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 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Harvard | 30 | 15 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 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 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Goober Gang | 45 | 15 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Guelph | 45 | 15 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU | George Mason A | 45 | 15 |
| Robert Wang | evil women enjoyers | Egypt Airlines Haters | 45 | 15 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | we need new names | 45 | 15 |
| Jaik Havlick | Arizona State University A | Carleton | 48 | 15 |
| Keefe Yang | Gruh | Mahjonng Masters | 48 | 15 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Master and Margaritaville | 48 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 48 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Drew Schreiner | Missouri | WashU Bulbasaur | 62 | 15 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield A | Edinburgh | 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis | 66 | 15 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Free Agents 1 | 66 | 15 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | SIUE | 66 | 15 |
| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | Belmont | 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 |
| Daniel Chung | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Art of Premature Signaling | 70 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | NYU A | Maryland B | 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 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 70 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 70 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | George Mason B | 70 | 10 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington | Maryland A | 70 | 10 |
| Owen Yeh-Lee | Oberlin | Ohio State D | 72 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 72 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 73 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Warwick B | 73 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | Caltech | 86 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Haverford B | 86 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 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 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Ohio State C | 97 | 10 |
| Andrew McKenzie | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 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 |