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 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 88 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Oxford A | 88 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Carleton | 89 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 91 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago D | Missouri | 92 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 92 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 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 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 98 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Penn A | 98 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA | Claremont B | 98 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | UCF B | 98 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida A | 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 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 124 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Warwick B | 124 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | ESF A | 125 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 125 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge D | 125 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 127 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Cornell B | 128 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT A | 129 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Imperial 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 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | UNC B | 136 | 0 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Chicago B | 136 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Chicago D | 136 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | UC Berkeley A | 136 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 136 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Bristol | 136 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 136 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | Oxford B | 136 | 0 |