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 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | WashU Grolars | 48 | -5 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland A | Stony Brook | 48 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Michigan State D | 67 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa B | Nebraska A | 67 | 10 |
| Julian Moody | Tufts A | Boston University B | 67 | -5 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Louisville C | 69 | -5 |
| Joshua Iyo | UNC B | Liberty A | 69 | -5 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia A | William & Mary B | 69 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 72 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Arhith Dharaendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 72 | -5 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Chipola College | 72 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Sewanne | 72 | -5 |
| Mata Cooper | Southampton | Imperial D | 72 | -5 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton C | 72 | -5 |
| Brendan Liaw | British Columbia A | Washington Chinook | 72 | 10 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Central Oklahoma A | 72 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Amherst A | 73 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | JMU A | NCSU B | 73 | 10 |
| Stephen Donoghue | Sheffield B | Edinburgh D | 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 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | Tusculum A | 74 | 10 |
| Nathan Sprouse | Virginia Tech B | VCU A | 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 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Cambridge C | 74 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington Steelhead | 74 | 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 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD B | USC A | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hughes | Auburn A | Auburn C | 75 | 10 |
| Thaddeus Holmes | Durham C | Edinburgh B | 75 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Rory Moloney | Cambridge E | Birmingham | 75 | 10 |
| Gabriel Nell | Cornell B | Cornell D | 75 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Brandeis Mozart | 76 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown A | Brandeis Bach | 76 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 76 | 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 |
| Jonathan Koehler | UCLA C | UCSD A | 76 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida Tech B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Deeksha Easwar | Washington Sockeye | Washington State | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa A | Central Oklahoma B | 76 | 10 |
| Fionn O’Connor | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech D | 76 | 10 |
| Abbie Isabel | Edinburgh A | Durham 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 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Waterloo C | 76 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Harvard | 76 | 10 |
| Johnny Myers | Williams B | MIT B | 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 |
| Jaxsen Melton | Murray State College A | Kansas State A | 76 | 10 |
| Sam Beshear | Murray State College B | Nebraska 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 |
| Owen Gibbs | Boston College B | Dartmouth C | 79 | 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 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Iowa A | 80 | 10 |
| Mai Höglund | Claremont B | UCLA D | 80 | 10 |
| Alex McClanahan | WVU A | Kentucky | 80 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Mississippi State A | 80 | 10 |
| Joshua Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan State C | 81 | 10 |
| Luke Hasksins | Kansas State B | Harding | 81 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Southampton | 86 | 10 |
| Thomas Vukovic | Toronto H | Waterloo B | 86 | 10 |
| Diana Risley | WashU Grolars | Purdue B | 87 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Gentry Dowdy | Liberty B | NCSU A | 94 | 10 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Tennessee A | 94 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Hanson Hunynh | Boston University B | Tufts 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 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Ottawa D | 115 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Iowa State | 115 | 10 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | Michigan State B | 115 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Montevallo | 115 | 10 |