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 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | Washington Masu | 63 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | McGill C | 63 | -5 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley Boss Bandit | Stanford B | 66 | 10 |
| Ishan Pachauri | UCLA C | UC Irvine | 66 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Coho | 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 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Waterloo 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 |
| Natalie Gehring | Murray State College A | Central Oklahoma A | 73 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD A | Claremont A | 73 | 10 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Michigan Tech | 73 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Montevallo | 74 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland A | George Mason 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 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Johns Hopkins | 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 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Clemson B | 75 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Clemson C | 75 | 10 |
| Suhaan Pastakia | Maryland C | George Mason A | 75 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh A | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Louisville A | 76 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Toronto H | 76 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto I | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | George Mason C | 76 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Indiana A | 76 | 10 |
| Neal Tandon | Columbia B | Columbia A | 76 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers C | 76 | 10 |
| Ritwik Sharma | Arizona State A | Boise State | 76 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cas Fidel | Tulsa A | Murray State College B | 78 | 10 |
| Michael Shipman | Cambridge D | Cardiff | 78 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | British Columbia B | 78 | -5 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Washington Pink | 80 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 85 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland B | NYU C | 89 | -5 |
| Sam Montgomery | Ottawa C | Carleton B | 93 | -5 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill B | Ottawa A | 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 |
| Leo Godbee | Bristol | Imperial A | 96 | -5 |
| Derek Li | Cornell A | Cornell B | 96 | -5 |
| Sammy Carstens | Rochester | RIT B | 96 | 10 |
| Abhinav Madamanchi | NYU B | Stony Brook | 96 | 10 |
| Saswat Sasha Tripathi | Chicago A | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Southampton | 96 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton 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 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | South Florida A | 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 |
| Minh Nguyen | Cornell B | Cornell A | 118 | 10 |
| David Black | Illinois Champaign | Illinois Canada | 118 | 10 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | Ottawa C | 119 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Ohio State C | 119 | 10 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | Tusculum A | 119 | 10 |
| Martin Brandenburg | Georgia A | Auburn A | 119 | 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 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | Maryland B | 119 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU Grolars | Iowa B | 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 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Durham A | 119 | 10 |
| Eoghan Herriot | Durham D | Durham C | 119 | 10 |
| Bethany Howard | Imperial A | Bristol | 119 | 10 |
| Megan Englehart | ESF | Cornell D | 119 | 0 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU Daytona A | Florida Tech A | 119 | 10 |
| Orin Overmiller | Florida Tech B | Florida State A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Auburn C | 119 | 10 |
| Alex Coleridge | Durham B | Sheffield B | 119 | 10 |
| Advaith Jagannath | Cambridge C | Imperial D | 119 | 10 |