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 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Manchester | 63 | -5 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Indiana B | 63 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge C | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin B | 63 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 113 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Imperial B | 113 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 113 | 10 |
| Drew Scheiner | Missouri | WashU B | 113 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Missoui S&T | 113 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 113 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | George Washington A | 114 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland 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 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | TAMU | 138 | 10 |
| Trey Stephens | Louisville A | Alabama A | 138 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 138 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Cambridge B | 138 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Southampton B | 138 | 0 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 138 | 10 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | Cornell C | 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 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Illinois C | 138 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota B | 138 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 138 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Brandeis A | 138 | 10 |
| Daniel Ju | Harvard B | Brandeis B | 138 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Northwestern A | 138 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 138 | 0 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Bruin A | 138 | 0 |
| Paritosh Purohit | Bristol | Cambridge D | 138 | 0 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Bristol | 138 | 0 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham | Oxford B | 138 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Haverford A | 138 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Winona State | 138 | 0 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Brown A | 138 | 10 |