In the construction of the mahavedi to house this thing, the round garhapatya (“gahr-huh-PUHT-yuh”) and the square ahavaniya (“ah-huh-vuh-NEE-yuh”) must have the same area, an early form of squaring the circle. A deity of this thing is invoked in the opening line of the Rigveda. The death of the asuri Holika is celebrated by one of these things on the night before Holi. In a wedding ceremony called saptapadi (“SUP-tuh-puh-dee”), the bride and groom go around this thing seven times. During aarti (“AHR-thee”), these things are circled before a murti, and during Diwali, houses are adorned with diyas containing this thing. This thing central to a yajña (“YUHG-nyuh”) is personified by the god Agni. For 10 points, Hindus cremate bodies with what classical element? ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 109.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.43 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 107.20 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.11 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 116.25 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 84.45 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.44 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 83.44 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.56 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 93.13 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.17 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 87.50 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 87.63 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 101.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn | Vassar A | 42 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Rutgers B | 46 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Georgia Tech B | 53 | 10 |
| Anila Moparthi | Illinois Orange | Illinois Urbana | 58 | 10 |
| Jacob Coyne | Durham C | Durham D | 60 | -5 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Toronto E | 60 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 60 | 10 |
| Abhay Ariyapappillil | Ottawa B | McGill A | 62 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | McGill C | 63 | -5 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | Washington Masu | 63 | 10 |
| Ishan Pachauri | UCLA C | UC Irvine | 66 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Coho | 66 | 10 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley Boss Bandit | Stanford B | 66 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chinook | 66 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD B | 68 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont B | Claremont C | 70 | 10 |
| Asish Madarapu | UNC D | William & Mary B | 70 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UCLA E | 71 | 10 |
| Vivian Adolph | UNC B | Duke A | 71 | 10 |
| Pratham Bhanushali | WVU B | CWRU D | 72 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | Michigan State B | Kentucky | 72 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State D | 72 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue A | 72 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD A | Claremont A | 73 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU A | Louisville D | 73 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan A | 73 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | NCSU A | 73 | 10 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Michigan Tech | 73 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Waterloo A | 73 | 10 |
| Natalie Gehring | Murray State College A | Central Oklahoma A | 73 | 10 |
| Surya Donath | Stanford A | Berkeley Little Prince | 74 | 10 |
| Lorie Au-Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley Mighty Miner | 74 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Berkeley Skeleton King | 74 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Niyanthi Yamunan | Georgia Tech E | Tennessee B | 74 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland A | George Mason B | 74 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Johns Hopkins | 74 | 10 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Montevallo | 74 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCLA F | 75 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary A | Virginia Tech A | 75 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Clemson C | 75 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh A | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Suhaan Pastakia | Maryland C | George Mason A | 75 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State A | Michigan D | 75 | 10 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Clemson B | 75 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Toronto H | 76 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto I | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan B | WVU A | 76 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | UNC A | 76 | 10 |
| Zoe Brennan | Virginia Tech C | Liberty C | 76 | 10 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech D | 76 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Mississippi State A | 76 | 10 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee A | 76 | -5 |
| Kathryn Knispel | Edinburgh D | Sheffield A | 76 | 10 |
| Neal Tandon | Columbia B | Columbia A | 76 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | George Mason C | 76 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers C | 76 | 10 |
| Vishrut Pisupati | Imperial B | Birmingham | 76 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Cambridge C | 76 | -5 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE | Cambridge B | 76 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Louisville A | 76 | -5 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Indiana A | 76 | 10 |
| Ritwik Sharma | Arizona State A | Boise State | 76 | -5 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Imperial C | 77 | 10 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State B | CWRU B | 78 | 10 |
| Michael Shipman | Cambridge D | Cardiff | 78 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | British Columbia B | 78 | -5 |
| Cas Fidel | Tulsa A | Murray State College B | 78 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Washington Pink | 80 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 85 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland B | NYU C | 89 | -5 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill B | Ottawa A | 93 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Florida Tech B | 93 | -5 |
| Sam Montgomery | Ottawa C | Carleton B | 93 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | ESF | 94 | -5 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn A | Georgia A | 96 | -5 |
| Atticus Teter | Durham A | York | 96 | -5 |
| Mikkie Smylie | Brock A | Waterloo C | 96 | 10 |
| Abhinav Madamanchi | NYU B | Stony Brook | 96 | 10 |
| Saswat Sasha Tripathi | Chicago A | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Leo Godbee | Bristol | Imperial A | 96 | -5 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Southampton | 96 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell A | Cornell B | 96 | -5 |
| Sammy Carstens | Rochester | RIT B | 96 | 10 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | McMaster A | 98 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | British Columbia C | 102 | -5 |
| Becca Wu | JMU B | William & Mary C | 108 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods University A | Purdue D | 108 | 10 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Emory A | 108 | 10 |
| Lulu Anderson | Sheffield B | Durham B | 108 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton C | 108 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Michigan State D | 108 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska A | Rose State | 108 | 10 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Tulsa B | 108 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | South Florida A | 111 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto D | Guelph A | 111 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto B | McMaster B | 111 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Michigan State C | 111 | 10 |
| CJ Sershon | Central Oklahoma B | Harding | 111 | 10 |
| Nathan Coble | Oklahoma | Kansas State B | 111 | 10 |
| Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | Rose-Hulman A | 112 | 10 |
| Suyog Vibhuti | Washington Steelhead | British Columbia A | 113 | 10 |
| Vivian Lu | Wisconsin C | Minnesota | 113 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 114 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF A | 116 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Sewanne | 116 | 10 |
| Jennifer Zhu | McGill C | Ottawa D | 118 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill E | Carleton A | 118 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan | Lehigh A | 118 | 10 |
| David Black | Illinois Champaign | Illinois Canada | 118 | 10 |
| Minh Nguyen | Cornell B | Cornell A | 118 | 10 |
| Chris Chang | USC A | USC B | 119 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa A | McGill B | 119 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 119 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU Daytona A | Florida Tech A | 119 | 10 |
| Orin Overmiller | Florida Tech B | Florida State A | 119 | 10 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | Tusculum A | 119 | 10 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin A | 119 | 10 |
| Owen Gibbs | Boston College B | Southern Connecticut State University A | 119 | 10 |
| Alan Zhang | British Columbia C | Alberta B | 119 | 10 |
| Martin Brandenburg | Georgia A | Auburn A | 119 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Auburn C | 119 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Durham A | 119 | 10 |
| Eoghan Herriot | Durham D | Durham C | 119 | 10 |
| Alex Coleridge | Durham B | Sheffield B | 119 | 10 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | Ottawa C | 119 | 10 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | Maryland B | 119 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh B | Vassar B | 119 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago B | Indiana B | 119 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Chicago B | 119 | 10 |
| Bethany Howard | Imperial A | Bristol | 119 | 10 |
| Advaith Jagannath | Cambridge C | Imperial D | 119 | 10 |
| Megan Englehart | ESF | Cornell D | 119 | 0 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Ohio State C | 119 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU Grolars | Iowa B | 119 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Wisconsin B | 119 | 10 |
| Bryce Younger | Boise State | Arizona State A | 119 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia B | Arizona State B | 119 | 10 |