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 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 60 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Toronto 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 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley Boss Bandit | Stanford B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue A | 72 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State D | 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 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Michigan Tech | 73 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD A | Claremont A | 73 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | NCSU 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 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland A | George Mason B | 74 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Johns Hopkins | 74 | 10 |
| Niyanthi Yamunan | Georgia Tech E | Tennessee B | 74 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Montevallo | 74 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCLA F | 75 | 10 |
| Suhaan Pastakia | Maryland C | George Mason A | 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 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh A | Edinburgh C | 75 | 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 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Indiana A | 76 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Mississippi State A | 76 | 10 |
| Kathryn Knispel | Edinburgh D | Sheffield A | 76 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Toronto H | 76 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto I | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Ritwik Sharma | Arizona State A | Boise State | 76 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee A | 76 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Michael Shipman | Cambridge D | Cardiff | 78 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Abhinav Madamanchi | NYU B | Stony Brook | 96 | 10 |
| Saswat Sasha Tripathi | Chicago A | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Leo Godbee | Bristol | Imperial A | 96 | -5 |
| Mikkie Smylie | Brock A | Waterloo C | 96 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Southampton | 96 | 10 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | McMaster A | 98 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | British Columbia C | 102 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Vivian Lu | Wisconsin C | Minnesota | 113 | 10 |
| Suyog Vibhuti | Washington Steelhead | British Columbia A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Roy Yang | WashU Grolars | Iowa B | 119 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Auburn C | 119 | 10 |
| Alex Coleridge | Durham B | Sheffield B | 119 | 10 |
| Bethany Howard | Imperial A | Bristol | 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 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin A | 119 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Wisconsin B | 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 |
| Megan Englehart | ESF | Cornell D | 119 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Durham A | 119 | 10 |
| Eoghan Herriot | Durham D | Durham C | 119 | 10 |
| Advaith Jagannath | Cambridge C | Imperial D | 119 | 10 |