Religious members of this ethnic group undergo a baptism-like ceremony with waters from the “White Spring” at the age of 10; that ceremony is mor kirin. The Saranjam is a key work in a religion primarily followed by this ethnic group founded by the fourth of the “seven persons,” Sultan Sahak. A three-stringed lute symbolizes that faith primarily practiced by this ethnic group, Yarsanism. A religion founded by this ethnic group believes that the universe emerged from a cosmic pearl, a story recorded in their qewl hymns. That religion of this ethnic group performs the “Feast of the Assembly” pilgrimage to Lalish to commemorate Sheikh Adi. This ethnic group’s belief in the “Peacock Angel” Tawûsî Melek was called “devil worship” by extremists, triggering a 2010s genocide. For 10 points, name this ethnic group of most Yazidis in Iraq. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.00 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 108.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 130.20 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.50 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 125.50 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 123.60 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 114.40 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 128.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 128.67 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 20% | 97.14 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.25 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Notre Dame C | 26 | -5 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Penn B | 52 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois A | 61 | 10 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Valencia A | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin B | 63 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge C | 63 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Manchester | 63 | -5 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Indiana B | 63 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | MIT A | 66 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Oxford C | 71 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Southampton A | 79 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Chicago D | 79 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Notre Dame B | 82 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 101 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Harvard B | 105 | -5 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | Florida State A | 108 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 113 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 113 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Missoui S&T | 113 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 113 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Imperial B | 113 | 10 |
| Drew Scheiner | Missouri | WashU B | 113 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 114 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Georgetown A | 114 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Vassar A | 114 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | NYU B | 114 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | George Washington A | 114 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | Claremont A | 115 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Notre Dame A | 115 | 10 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial A | NYU C | 115 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 119 | -5 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 119 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland A | 119 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue | Georgetown B | 123 | 10 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | UCF C | 125 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina | 125 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | NYU A | 127 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | UNC D | 128 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Durham | 128 | -5 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland B | 128 | 10 |
| Christopher Dekermanji | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 135 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC B | Liberty B | 137 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | William & Mary | 137 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Florida A | 138 | 10 |
| Adam Pascoe | Wake Forest | Liberty A | 138 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schneidau | Liberty C | UNC C | 138 | 0 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Liberty C | 138 | 0 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Brown A | 138 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Northwestern A | 138 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | TAMU | 138 | 10 |
| Trey Stephens | Louisville A | Alabama A | 138 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 138 | 0 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Bruin A | 138 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota B | 138 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Winona State | 138 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 138 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Brandeis A | 138 | 10 |
| Daniel Ju | Harvard B | Brandeis B | 138 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 138 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Cambridge B | 138 | 10 |
| Paritosh Purohit | Bristol | Cambridge D | 138 | 0 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Bristol | 138 | 0 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham | Oxford B | 138 | 0 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Southampton B | 138 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Haverford A | 138 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Illinois C | 138 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 138 | 10 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | Cornell C | 138 | 10 |