A teacher of this activity nicknamed “Aunty Edith” is the namesake of a stadium that hosts a competition often billed as “the Olympics of” this activity. The scholar Mary Kawena Pukui was an expert on the seated form of this activity, which in the modern day is often performed to songs like “Tiny Bubbles” and “E Ō Mai.” Each Easter, judges at the Merrie Monarch Festival evaluate performances in this activity’s ancient form based on their usage of chants called mele and oli to convey oral narratives called mo‘olelo. Ipu or pahu drums usually provide percussion for this dance, whose modern form is taught by kumus at schools called hālau and may be set to English-language hapa haole music. For 10 points, performers at lū‘aus often wear leis and grass skirts during what dance of Hawai‘i? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 99.67 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 95.20 |
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| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 30% | 116.22 |
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| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.00 |
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| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | NYU C | 50 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois B | 59 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 65 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 67 | -5 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | UNC C | 69 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Wake Forest | 71 | 10 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Rutgers A | 73 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Manchester | 76 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | South Carolina | 86 | -5 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 86 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Oxford A | 88 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 88 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Carleton | 89 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 91 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago D | Missouri | 92 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 92 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 92 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WashU B | 93 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Harvard B | 94 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Maryland A | 94 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 95 | -5 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | UCF B | 98 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida A | 98 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 98 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Penn A | 98 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA | Claremont B | 98 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Brown A | 99 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 100 | -5 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 100 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | Valencia A | 101 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 101 | 10 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee A | Bruin A | 101 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Sheffield | 104 | -5 |
| Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Southampton B | 105 | -5 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | BU | 107 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 109 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 109 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 109 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 113 | 10 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | Vassar A | 115 | 10 |
| Ethan Siskel | Tufts A | Brandeis A | 118 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | Dartmouth A | 122 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 124 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 124 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Warwick B | 124 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 124 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 125 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge D | 125 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | ESF A | 125 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 127 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Cornell B | 128 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Imperial A | 129 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT A | 129 | 10 |
| Luke Ketchum | Missoui S&T | Illinois A | 135 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick A | Durham | 135 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Southampton A | 135 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Chicago B | 136 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Chicago D | 136 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | UNC B | 136 | 0 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 136 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | Oxford B | 136 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | UC Berkeley A | 136 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 136 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Bristol | 136 | 10 |