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 |
| Tal Bowen | Durham A | Sheffield A | 48 | -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 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech F | 49 | -5 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Vassar B | 49 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell A | 49 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | NYU A | 65 | -5 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill A | Carleton B | 65 | 10 |
| Julian Moody | Tufts A | Boston University B | 67 | -5 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Michigan State D | 67 | -5 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin B | 67 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa B | Nebraska A | 67 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | UNC B | Liberty A | 69 | -5 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia A | William & Mary B | 69 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Louisville C | 69 | -5 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Clemson C | 69 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | USC B | 70 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 70 | 10 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Warwick | 70 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF A | Florida State A | 71 | -5 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Central Oklahoma A | 72 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Sewanne | 72 | -5 |
| Mata Cooper | Southampton | Imperial D | 72 | -5 |
| William Henley | Illinois Champaign | Purdue D | 72 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams A | Boston College A | 72 | 10 |
| Diego Monge | Claremont C | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NCSU A | Liberty B | 72 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 72 | 10 |
| Brendan Liaw | British Columbia A | Washington Chinook | 72 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharaendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 72 | -5 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Chipola College | 72 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton C | 72 | -5 |
| Stephen Donoghue | Sheffield B | Edinburgh D | 73 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Amherst A | 73 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | JMU A | NCSU B | 73 | 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 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington Steelhead | 74 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto G | Toronto B | 74 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | Tusculum A | 74 | 10 |
| Nathan Sprouse | Virginia Tech B | VCU A | 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 |
| Thaddeus Holmes | Durham C | Edinburgh B | 75 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD B | USC A | 75 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | Ottawa C | 75 | 10 |
| Maya Vardag | Waterloo A | Toronto I | 75 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Amherst B | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hughes | Auburn A | Auburn C | 75 | 10 |
| Rory Moloney | Cambridge E | Birmingham | 75 | 10 |
| Gabriel Nell | Cornell B | Cornell D | 75 | 10 |
| Janghyun Lee | Berkeley Little Prince | UCSC | 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 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Maryland C | 76 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn | Rutgers B | 76 | 10 |
| Jaxsen Melton | Murray State College A | Kansas State A | 76 | 10 |
| Sam Beshear | Murray State College B | Nebraska B | 76 | 10 |
| Abbie Isabel | Edinburgh A | Durham D | 76 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Waterloo C | 76 | 10 |
| Ben Schindelman | Vassar A | NYU C | 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 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Harvard | 76 | 10 |
| Johnny Myers | Williams B | MIT B | 76 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta A | Washington Coho | 76 | 10 |
| Deeksha Easwar | Washington Sockeye | Washington State | 76 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 76 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Stanford A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida Tech B | 76 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU A | Ohio State D | 76 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | UNC D | Virginia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Princeton | 76 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins | Rowan | 76 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois Blue | Rose-Hulman A | 76 | 10 |
| Francis Dinh | Illinois Canada | Iowa B | 76 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown A | Brandeis Bach | 76 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | Boston University A | Williams C | 76 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Atlantic | 76 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | Washington Pink | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa A | Central Oklahoma B | 76 | 10 |
| Fionn O’Connor | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech D | 76 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Cambridge D | 76 | 10 |
| Josh Morris | Bristol | LSE | 76 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Binghamton B | 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 |
| Jack Rabaut | Michigan D | Louisville D | 79 | 10 |
| Hansen Jin | Berkeley Skeleton King | Stanford B | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Florida Tech A | 79 | 10 |
| Owen Gibbs | Boston College B | Dartmouth C | 79 | 10 |
| Alex McClanahan | WVU A | Kentucky | 80 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Mississippi State A | 80 | 10 |
| Mai Höglund | Claremont B | UCLA D | 80 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Iowa A | 80 | 10 |
| Luke Hasksins | Kansas State B | Harding | 81 | 10 |
| Joshua Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan State C | 81 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Southampton | 86 | 10 |
| Thomas Vukovic | Toronto H | Waterloo B | 86 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 87 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU C | 87 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville C | Pittsburgh | 87 | 10 |
| Diana Risley | WashU Grolars | Purdue B | 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 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Tennessee A | 94 | 10 |
| Hanson Hunynh | Boston University B | Tufts A | 94 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Guelph A | 94 | 10 |
| Gentry Dowdy | Liberty B | NCSU A | 94 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia C | Washington Masu | 94 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | NYU B | 101 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 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 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | Michigan State B | 115 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Montevallo | 115 | 10 |