This character overhears a woodcutter reciting a poem called the Mantingfang, ultimately leading him to his first teacher. An object associated with this character is said to have originally contained nine orifices and eight holes, before transforming after a wind blew on it. This character correctly deduces that being hit three times on the back of the head by his teacher was an instruction to meet him during the third watch of the night. This character jumps through a (*) waterfall to discover the Water Curtain Cave behind it during his time on the Flower-Fruit Mountain. An object used by Yu the Great to measure flood water depth is gifted by the Dragon King of the East Sea to this character, becoming his weapon, the Ruyi Jingu Bang. For 10 points, Tang Sanzang is accompanied by what monkey born from a stone egg in Journey to the West? ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 33% | 22% | 93.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 77.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 82.38 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 101.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 92.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 69.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 67% | 97.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 68.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 28 | 15 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCLA B | 34 | 15 |
| Anthony Zhao | Mahjonng Masters | Auburn 2026 | 34 | 15 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 42 | -5 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Toronto Metropolitan | 46 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | Claremont B | 48 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 54 | 15 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University B | 60 | 15 |
| Steven Yuan | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Quatumvirate | 63 | -5 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | UBC | 63 | 15 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | MIT | 63 | 15 |
| Luis D'Olhaberriague | George Washington | George Mason B | 63 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 65 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Oberlin | 65 | 15 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan A | 69 | 15 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 73 | -5 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | mongeese | 73 | 15 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Ottawa A | 73 | 15 |
| Crow He | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 79 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Brandeis | 79 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Iowa State | 79 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Warwick A | 81 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Lexington | 81 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Rutgers | 82 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Sheffield B | 83 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 83 | 10 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Goober Gang | 84 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State B | 85 | 10 |
| Payton Chung | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCLA A | 85 | 10 |
| Daniel Chung | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCSB | 85 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Too much from you lately | 85 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Imperial B | 85 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | Toronto A | 85 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Belmont | 85 | 10 |
| Sky Hong | we need new names | Egypt Airlines Haters | 85 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto D | Toronto B | 86 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Toronto E | 86 | 10 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 86 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | WashU Bulbasaur | 86 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Warwick C | 87 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 87 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Georgetown | 87 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | George Mason A | 87 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State University A | UW A | 89 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Manchester | 90 | 10 |
| Stan | Gruh | MSJ | 90 | -5 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 94 | 10 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | UCSD | 94 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McGill A | 94 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | NYU B | 94 | 10 |
| Aron Csornok | SD Mines | Carleton | 94 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Lancaster | 96 | 10 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 101 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | Catholic University of America | 110 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Chicago A | 111 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason C | Haverford A | 118 | 10 |
| Winnie Nutkowitz | Illinois Orange | Free Agents 1 | 124 | 10 |
| Kevin | Simon Fraser | Mac A | 126 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Alberta | 126 | 10 |
| Alyx Reckanh | Billy's Bastion | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 141 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | Quatumvirate | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 141 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Gruh | 144 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason B | George Washington | 147 | 10 |