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 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Vassar B | 49 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell A | 49 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | NYU A | 65 | -5 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill A | Carleton B | 65 | 10 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin B | 67 | 10 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Michigan State D | 67 | -5 |
| Julian Moody | Tufts A | Boston University B | 67 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa B | Nebraska A | 67 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| John Gamble | NCSU A | Liberty B | 72 | -5 |
| Mata Cooper | Southampton | Imperial D | 72 | -5 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton C | 72 | -5 |
| Diego Monge | Claremont C | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Sewanne | 72 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Maya Vardag | Waterloo A | Toronto I | 75 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Amherst B | 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 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD B | USC A | 75 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | Ottawa C | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hughes | Auburn A | Auburn C | 75 | 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 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU A | Ohio State D | 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 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Brandeis Mozart | 76 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown A | Brandeis Bach | 76 | 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 |
| Jeffery Austin | UNC D | Virginia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Maryland C | 76 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn | Rutgers B | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jack Rabaut | Michigan D | Louisville D | 79 | 10 |
| Hansen Jin | Berkeley Skeleton King | Stanford B | 79 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Iowa A | 80 | 10 |
| Alex McClanahan | WVU A | Kentucky | 80 | 10 |
| Mai Höglund | Claremont B | UCLA D | 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 |
| Thomas Vukovic | Toronto H | Waterloo B | 86 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Southampton | 86 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU C | 87 | 10 |
| Diana Risley | WashU Grolars | Purdue B | 87 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 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 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Vanderbilt B | 92 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech A | 92 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF A | 93 | 10 |
| Gentry Dowdy | Liberty B | NCSU A | 94 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Guelph A | 94 | 10 |
| Hanson Hunynh | Boston University B | Tufts A | 94 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia C | Washington Masu | 94 | 10 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Tennessee 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 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | Michigan State B | 115 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Montevallo | 115 | 10 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Ottawa D | 115 | 10 |