In the Mabinogion (“mah-bih-NOG-yon”), one of these beings challenges Culhwch (“KILL-hookh”) to retrieve a comb and scissors from the boar Twrch Trwyth (“toork truh-ith”) in order to let him marry his daughter Olwen. In the Kalevala, Väinämöinen (“VYE-na-moy-nen”) obtains the last three words of a spell from the stomach of one of these beings, Antero Vipunen. The severed head of one of these beings is buried facing France to protect Britain from invasion. Finn MacCool creates a “causeway” named after these beings. In Norse myth, Ymir (“EE-meer”) is the first of the “frost” variety of these beings who live in Jotunheim (“YO-tun-hime”). For 10 points, name these large beings, one of which yells “fee, fi, fo, fum” in Jack and the Beanstalk. ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 74.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.57 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.75 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 78.78 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 84.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 78.64 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 76.22 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 79.50 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 76.89 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 83.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 72.92 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.63 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.67 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 42% | 84.25 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.50 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 75.29 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 81.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth B | Tufts C | 28 | 10 |
| Eoghan Herriot | Durham D | Edinburgh A | 31 | -5 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State A | CWRU D | 32 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph A | McMaster C | 43 | -5 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland A | Stony Brook | 48 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | WashU Grolars | 48 | -5 |
| Evan Roberts | Vanderbilt C | Alabama A | 48 | 10 |
| Tal Bowen | Durham A | Sheffield A | 48 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell A | 49 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Vassar B | 49 | -5 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech F | 49 | -5 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech E | 50 | -5 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 52 | -5 |
| Andrew Wilson | Montevallo | Vanderbilt A | 58 | -5 |
| Jamie Pach | Ottawa D | McGill E | 59 | -5 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill A | Carleton B | 65 | 10 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | NYU A | 65 | -5 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin B | 67 | 10 |
| Julian Moody | Tufts A | Boston University B | 67 | -5 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Michigan State D | 67 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa B | Nebraska A | 67 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia A | William & Mary B | 69 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Louisville C | 69 | -5 |
| Joshua Iyo | UNC B | Liberty A | 69 | -5 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Clemson C | 69 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 70 | 10 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Warwick | 70 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | USC B | 70 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF A | Florida State A | 71 | -5 |
| William Henley | Illinois Champaign | Purdue D | 72 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams A | Boston College A | 72 | 10 |
| Mata Cooper | Southampton | Imperial D | 72 | -5 |
| Diego Monge | Claremont C | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 72 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Sewanne | 72 | -5 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton C | 72 | -5 |
| John Gamble | NCSU A | Liberty B | 72 | -5 |
| Brendan Liaw | British Columbia A | Washington Chinook | 72 | 10 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Central Oklahoma A | 72 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharaendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 72 | -5 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Chipola College | 72 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Amherst A | 73 | 10 |
| Stephen Donoghue | Sheffield B | Edinburgh D | 73 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | JMU A | NCSU B | 73 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto G | Toronto B | 74 | 10 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin C | Wisconsin A | 74 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Brandeis Beethoven | 74 | 10 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Cambridge C | 74 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | Virginia Tech A | 74 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Columbia B | 74 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland B | Lehigh B | 74 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | Tusculum A | 74 | 10 |
| Nathan Sprouse | Virginia Tech B | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington Steelhead | 74 | 10 |
| Maya Vardag | Waterloo A | Toronto I | 75 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Amherst B | 75 | 10 |
| Rory Moloney | Cambridge E | Birmingham | 75 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD B | USC A | 75 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | Ottawa C | 75 | 10 |
| Thaddeus Holmes | Durham C | Edinburgh B | 75 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Gabriel Nell | Cornell B | Cornell D | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hughes | Auburn A | Auburn C | 75 | 10 |
| Janghyun Lee | Berkeley Little Prince | UCSC | 76 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster A | Brock A | 76 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto D | Toronto A | 76 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto E | Toronto F | 76 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Waterloo C | 76 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida Tech B | 76 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue C | Indiana B | 76 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana A | William Woods University A | 76 | 10 |
| Henry L'Heureux | Minnesota | Michigan Tech | 76 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Brandeis Mozart | 76 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown A | Brandeis Bach | 76 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Harvard | 76 | 10 |
| Johnny Myers | Williams B | MIT B | 76 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Cambridge D | 76 | 10 |
| Josh Morris | Bristol | LSE | 76 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 76 | 10 |
| Joseph Wang | UCLA E | UCLA A | 76 | 10 |
| Jonathan Koehler | UCLA C | UCSD A | 76 | 10 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | McGill C | 76 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Maryland C | 76 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn | Rutgers B | 76 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Princeton | 76 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins | Rowan | 76 | 10 |
| Ben Schindelman | Vassar A | NYU C | 76 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois Blue | Rose-Hulman A | 76 | 10 |
| Francis Dinh | Illinois Canada | Iowa B | 76 | 10 |
| Abbie Isabel | Edinburgh A | Durham D | 76 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Binghamton B | 76 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Stanford A | 76 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU A | Ohio State D | 76 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan B | Louisville B | 76 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU B | Michigan C | 76 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State A | WVU B | 76 | 10 |
| David Ropp | Duke A | JMU B | 76 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | UNC B | 76 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | UNC D | Virginia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | Boston University A | Williams C | 76 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta A | Washington Coho | 76 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Atlantic | 76 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | Washington Pink | 76 | 10 |
| Deeksha Easwar | Washington Sockeye | Washington State | 76 | 10 |
| Jaxsen Melton | Murray State College A | Kansas State A | 76 | 10 |
| Sam Beshear | Murray State College B | Nebraska B | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa A | Central Oklahoma B | 76 | 10 |
| Fionn O’Connor | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech D | 76 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Illinois Urbana | 77 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Boise State | 77 | 10 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Columbia A | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Florida Tech A | 79 | 10 |
| Owen Gibbs | Boston College B | Dartmouth C | 79 | 10 |
| Hansen Jin | Berkeley Skeleton King | Stanford B | 79 | 10 |
| Jack Rabaut | Michigan D | Louisville D | 79 | 10 |
| Mai Höglund | Claremont B | UCLA D | 80 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Iowa A | 80 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Mississippi State A | 80 | 10 |
| Alex McClanahan | WVU A | Kentucky | 80 | 10 |
| Joshua Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan State C | 81 | 10 |
| Luke Hasksins | Kansas State B | Harding | 81 | 10 |
| Thomas Vukovic | Toronto H | Waterloo B | 86 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Southampton | 86 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 87 | 10 |
| Diana Risley | WashU Grolars | Purdue B | 87 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU C | 87 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville C | Pittsburgh | 87 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Emory A | 87 | 10 |
| Pallas Allen | South Florida A | ERAU Daytona A | 90 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason B | Rutgers C | 90 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech A | 92 | 10 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Vanderbilt B | 92 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF A | 93 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Guelph A | 94 | 10 |
| Hanson Hunynh | Boston University B | Tufts A | 94 | 10 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Tennessee A | 94 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Gentry Dowdy | Liberty B | NCSU A | 94 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia C | Washington Masu | 94 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 101 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | NYU B | 101 | 10 |
| Jaie Somaia | Sheffield A | Durham A | 106 | 10 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | Rutgers A | 109 | 10 |
| Britt Bernstein | Georgia A | Georgia Tech B | 111 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Iowa State | 115 | 10 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Ottawa D | 115 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Montevallo | 115 | 10 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | Michigan State B | 115 | 10 |