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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 92 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago D | Missouri | 92 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA | Claremont B | 98 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Brown A | 99 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 100 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 100 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 109 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 109 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 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 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 124 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 124 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 124 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Warwick B | 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 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | UC Berkeley A | 136 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | UNC B | 136 | 0 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 136 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Chicago B | 136 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Chicago D | 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 |