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 |
| Jacob Coyne | Durham C | Durham D | 60 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley Boss Bandit | Stanford B | 66 | 10 |
| Ishan Pachauri | UCLA C | UC Irvine | 66 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chinook | 66 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Coho | 66 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD B | 68 | 10 |
| Asish Madarapu | UNC D | William & Mary B | 70 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont B | Claremont C | 70 | 10 |
| Vivian Adolph | UNC B | Duke A | 71 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UCLA E | 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 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Waterloo A | 73 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | NCSU A | 73 | 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 |
| Natalie Gehring | Murray State College A | Central Oklahoma A | 73 | 10 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Michigan Tech | 73 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland A | George Mason B | 74 | 10 |
| Niyanthi Yamunan | Georgia Tech E | Tennessee B | 74 | 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 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Montevallo | 74 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Johns Hopkins | 74 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary A | Virginia Tech A | 75 | 10 |
| Suhaan Pastakia | Maryland C | George Mason A | 75 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Clemson C | 75 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh A | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCLA F | 75 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State A | Michigan D | 75 | 10 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Clemson B | 75 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | UNC A | 76 | 10 |
| Zoe Brennan | Virginia Tech C | Liberty C | 76 | 10 |
| Neal Tandon | Columbia B | Columbia A | 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 |
| Kathryn Knispel | Edinburgh D | Sheffield A | 76 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Louisville A | 76 | -5 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan B | WVU A | 76 | 10 |
| Ritwik Sharma | Arizona State A | Boise State | 76 | -5 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Toronto H | 76 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto I | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers C | 76 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Indiana 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 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Imperial C | 77 | 10 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State B | CWRU B | 78 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Sam Montgomery | Ottawa C | Carleton B | 93 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Florida Tech B | 93 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | ESF | 94 | -5 |
| Mikkie Smylie | Brock A | Waterloo C | 96 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn A | Georgia A | 96 | -5 |
| Atticus Teter | Durham A | York | 96 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Emory A | 108 | 10 |
| Lulu Anderson | Sheffield B | Durham B | 108 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods University A | Purdue D | 108 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton C | 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 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Sewanne | 116 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF A | 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 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | Ottawa C | 119 | 10 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | Tusculum A | 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 |
| Alex Coleridge | Durham B | Sheffield 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 |
| 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 |
| James Xiao | Toronto A | Waterloo 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 |
| 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 |
| Advaith Jagannath | Cambridge C | Imperial D | 119 | 10 |
| Megan Englehart | ESF | Cornell D | 119 | 0 |