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 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Toronto E | 60 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 60 | 10 |
| Jacob Coyne | Durham C | Durham D | 60 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chinook | 66 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Coho | 66 | 10 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley Boss Bandit | Stanford B | 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 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue A | 72 | 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 |
| March Delfin | UCSD A | Claremont A | 73 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Waterloo A | 73 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | NCSU A | 73 | 10 |
| Natalie Gehring | Murray State College A | Central Oklahoma A | 73 | 10 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Michigan Tech | 73 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU A | Louisville D | 73 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan 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 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Johns Hopkins | 74 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland A | George Mason B | 74 | 10 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Montevallo | 74 | 10 |
| Niyanthi Yamunan | Georgia Tech E | Tennessee B | 74 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCLA F | 75 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State A | Michigan D | 75 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary A | Virginia Tech A | 75 | 10 |
| Suhaan Pastakia | Maryland C | George Mason A | 75 | 10 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Clemson B | 75 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Clemson C | 75 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh A | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Louisville A | 76 | -5 |
| Neal Tandon | Columbia B | Columbia A | 76 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers C | 76 | 10 |
| Ritwik Sharma | Arizona State A | Boise State | 76 | -5 |
| Kathryn Knispel | Edinburgh D | Sheffield A | 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 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Indiana A | 76 | 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 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | George Mason 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 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Imperial C | 77 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | British Columbia B | 78 | -5 |
| Cas Fidel | Tulsa A | Murray State College B | 78 | 10 |
| Michael Shipman | Cambridge D | Cardiff | 78 | 10 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State B | CWRU 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 |
| Mikkie Smylie | Brock A | Waterloo C | 96 | 10 |
| Abhinav Madamanchi | NYU B | Stony Brook | 96 | 10 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Southampton | 96 | 10 |
| Saswat Sasha Tripathi | Chicago A | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Leo Godbee | Bristol | Imperial A | 96 | -5 |
| Derek Li | Cornell A | Cornell B | 96 | -5 |
| Sammy Carstens | Rochester | RIT B | 96 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn A | Georgia A | 96 | -5 |
| Atticus Teter | Durham A | York | 96 | -5 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | McMaster A | 98 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | British Columbia C | 102 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Michigan State D | 108 | 10 |
| Becca Wu | JMU B | William & Mary C | 108 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska A | Rose State | 108 | 10 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Tulsa B | 108 | 10 |
| Lulu Anderson | Sheffield B | Durham B | 108 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods University A | Purdue D | 108 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton C | 108 | 10 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Emory A | 108 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto D | Guelph A | 111 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto B | McMaster B | 111 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | South Florida A | 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 |
| David Black | Illinois Champaign | Illinois Canada | 118 | 10 |
| Minh Nguyen | Cornell B | Cornell A | 118 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan | Lehigh A | 118 | 10 |
| Chris Chang | USC A | USC B | 119 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa A | McGill B | 119 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU Daytona A | Florida Tech A | 119 | 10 |
| Orin Overmiller | Florida Tech B | Florida State A | 119 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Ohio State C | 119 | 10 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | Tusculum A | 119 | 10 |
| Owen Gibbs | Boston College B | Southern Connecticut State University A | 119 | 10 |
| Bryce Younger | Boise State | Arizona State A | 119 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia B | Arizona State B | 119 | 10 |
| Alan Zhang | British Columbia C | Alberta B | 119 | 10 |
| Alex Coleridge | Durham B | Sheffield B | 119 | 10 |
| Advaith Jagannath | Cambridge C | Imperial D | 119 | 10 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | Ottawa C | 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 |
| Roy Yang | WashU Grolars | Iowa B | 119 | 10 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin A | 119 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Wisconsin B | 119 | 10 |
| Bethany Howard | Imperial A | Bristol | 119 | 10 |
| Megan Englehart | ESF | Cornell D | 119 | 0 |
| James Xiao | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 119 | 10 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | Maryland 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 |