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 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Indiana B | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin B | 63 | -5 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Valencia A | 63 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge C | 63 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Manchester | 63 | -5 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | MIT A | 66 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Oxford C | 71 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Chicago D | 79 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Southampton A | 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 |
| Drew Scheiner | Missouri | WashU B | 113 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Missoui S&T | 113 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 113 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 113 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Imperial B | 113 | 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 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 114 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Georgetown A | 114 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | Claremont A | 115 | 10 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial A | NYU C | 115 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Notre Dame A | 115 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland A | 119 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 119 | -5 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 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 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland B | 128 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | UNC D | 128 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Durham | 128 | -5 |
| Christopher Dekermanji | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 135 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC B | Liberty B | 137 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | William & Mary | 137 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Illinois C | 138 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota B | 138 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Winona State | 138 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Haverford A | 138 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 138 | 10 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | Cornell C | 138 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 138 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Brandeis A | 138 | 10 |
| Daniel Ju | Harvard B | Brandeis B | 138 | 10 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Brown A | 138 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Northwestern A | 138 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | TAMU | 138 | 10 |