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 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech F | 49 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell A | 49 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Vassar B | 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 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | NYU A | 65 | -5 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill A | Carleton B | 65 | 10 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Michigan State D | 67 | -5 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin B | 67 | 10 |
| Julian Moody | Tufts A | Boston University B | 67 | -5 |
| 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 |
| John Gamble | NCSU A | Liberty B | 72 | -5 |
| Ethan Young | Williams A | Boston College A | 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 |
| Diego Monge | Claremont C | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 72 | 10 |
| William Henley | Illinois Champaign | Purdue D | 72 | 10 |
| Mata Cooper | Southampton | Imperial D | 72 | -5 |
| Erin Williams | JMU A | NCSU B | 73 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Amherst A | 73 | 10 |
| Stephen Donoghue | Sheffield B | Edinburgh D | 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 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Brandeis Beethoven | 74 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington Steelhead | 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 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto G | Toronto B | 74 | 10 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Cambridge C | 74 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Amherst B | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hughes | Auburn A | Auburn C | 75 | 10 |
| Gabriel Nell | Cornell B | Cornell D | 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 |
| Thaddeus Holmes | Durham C | Edinburgh B | 75 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Rory Moloney | Cambridge E | Birmingham | 75 | 10 |
| Janghyun Lee | Berkeley Little Prince | UCSC | 76 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Stanford A | 76 | 10 |
| Joseph Wang | UCLA E | UCLA A | 76 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida Tech B | 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 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown A | Brandeis Bach | 76 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | Boston University A | Williams C | 76 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta A | Washington Coho | 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 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU A | Ohio State D | 76 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | UNC D | Virginia Tech C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Binghamton B | 76 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 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 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Waterloo C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Abbie Isabel | Edinburgh A | Durham D | 76 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Cambridge D | 76 | 10 |
| Josh Morris | Bristol | LSE | 76 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Boise State | 77 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Illinois Urbana | 77 | 10 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Columbia A | 78 | 10 |
| Hansen Jin | Berkeley Skeleton King | Stanford B | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Florida Tech A | 79 | 10 |
| Jack Rabaut | Michigan D | Louisville D | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU C | 87 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville C | Pittsburgh | 87 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Emory A | 87 | 10 |
| Diana Risley | WashU Grolars | Purdue B | 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 |
| Gentry Dowdy | Liberty B | NCSU A | 94 | 10 |
| Hanson Hunynh | Boston University B | Tufts A | 94 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia C | Washington Masu | 94 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Guelph A | 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 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | Michigan State B | 115 | 10 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Ottawa D | 115 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Iowa State | 115 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Montevallo | 115 | 10 |