In one story, this figure is attacked by a massive three-horned beast called the Odontotyrannos, or “tooth-tyrant.” This figure’s servant Andreas loses a fish while in the Land of Darkness but subsequently discovers the Water of Life. Hoping to breed a race of strong children, the Amazonian queen Thalestris brought 300 women to this figure. According to Plutarch, a priest at a temple mispronounced the Greek for “my son” while meeting with this figure, who is sometimes depicted with two horns. Plutarch claims that since Artemis was attending to this ruler’s birth, her temple at Ephesus burnt down on the same day. An object connecting an ox to a tree was cut in half by this ruler. For 10 points, the Gordian Knot was severed by what Macedonian conqueror of the Achaemenid Empire? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 81.33 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 120.33 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 104.67 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.67 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.40 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 110.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.75 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 105.20 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 119.25 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 31 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Georgetown B | 57 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT B | 60 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Michigan D | 67 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Oxford C | 68 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Cambridge E | 72 | -5 |
| Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Purdue | 73 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 73 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Cambridge C | 80 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Maryland A | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 80 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | LSE | 80 | 10 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 81 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC | UW A | 81 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan A | 81 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | ASU | 81 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Cambridge D | 91 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Northwestern A | 96 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas B | 96 | 10 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 101 | 10 |
| Jerry Xu | Claremont B | UCSD | 104 | -5 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State B | Carnegie Mellon A | 109 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Penn B | 111 | 10 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida A | 113 | 10 |
| Cade Smith | Michigan State | Case Western B | 115 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Vassar A | 115 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | ESF A | 115 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | UW B | Alberta | 116 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon B | 116 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Manchester | 116 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Johns Hopkins A | 116 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | NYU B | 116 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Columbia B | 116 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Louisville A | 116 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin B | 119 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 119 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF B | 122 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Kenyon | 122 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Bristol | 122 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton B | 124 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 124 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 124 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Imperial B | 125 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota B | 126 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 126 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Haverford B | 126 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech D | 126 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Notre Dame C | 127 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Ohio State B | 127 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | George Washington A | 127 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | NYU A | 127 | 10 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Oxford B | 131 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Sheffield | 133 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 133 | 10 |