Question

Boys joining the sangha in this country go through the shinbyu ceremony, one of the Twelve Auspicious (10[1])Rites. Alchemy is practiced by mystics (10[1])in this country known as weizza. The Pali Canon (-5[2])was inscribed on over 700 tablets (-5[2])in this (10[1]-5[1])modern-day country (-5[2])as a result (-5[1])of the Fifth Buddhist Council, (-5[1])which, (10[1])along (-5[2])with the Sixth Buddhist Council, (-5[2])was held in this modern-day country. (-5[2])The three marks of existence are the subject of a meditation-focused (-5[2])movement that originated in this country named for its focus on “insight,” or vipassanā. (-5[2])This country is home (-5[1])to the nationalist (10[2])Buddhist 969 (10[1]-5[1])(“nine-six-nine”) movement. (10[3]-5[2])Eight strands (10[1])of the Buddha’s hair are allegedly contained in this country’s (-5[1])large (-5[1])golden Shwedagon (10[4]-5[1])Pagoda. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[2])name this country where Buddhist (-5[1])nationalists (10[2])have persecuted (10[1])the (10[2])Muslim (10[2])Rohingya (10[5])people. (10[7])■END■ (10[21]0[3])

ANSWER: Myanmar [or Republic of the Union of Myanmar; or Burma; or word forms]
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Summary

Florida2025-02-01Y367%0%67%129.00
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%110.33
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y6100%0%0%123.67
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%83%123.33
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%113.33
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%60%124.20
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%60%96.00
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%100%128.50
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%121.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%25%127.75
UK2025-02-01Y1090%0%40%105.11
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%50%107.63
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%127.67

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Nikhil ChellamNorthwestern APurdue1610
Vikshar AthreyaRutgers ACornell B2210
Khugan ChanUMass BostonHarvard B31-5
Paige CrawleyOxford BManchester31-5
Anton AkroushMichigan StateKenyon37-5
Andrew WangIllinois AMissouri37-5
Yrwin BatanMIT AHarvard A39-5
Albert NyangLSEWarwick B3910
Cole HartungGeorgetown ANotre Dame B41-5
Arya KarthikOxford ASheffield41-5
Tai BelkeUBCUW A44-5
Chauncey LoColumbia CGeorge Washington A49-5
Justin LeeImperial AWarwick A5010
Nicholas NguyenFlorida BFlorida State A51-5
Saketh DontarajuNYU APenn A51-5
Raj DoshiUCF BFlorida A56-5
Isaac MeredithTufts ABrandeis B56-5
Danila KabotyanskiIndiana AIllinois C62-5
Charles HangWashU AWashU B62-5
Jacob PuthipirojNorthwestern BIowa73-5
Rohan DalalGeorgia Tech CVanderbilt A73-5
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BMissoui S&T87-5
John Luke BroussardTAMUTexas B87-5
Claire JonesChicago AChicago C91-5
Andrew ZengStanford BNotre Dame C9410
Jem BurchYale AJohns Hopkins A9410
Daniel HuangMichigan DMichigan C9610
Agnijo BanerjeeCambridge ASouthampton B96-5
Alan LeeCase Western AMichigan B9710
Simon ZimmermanOhio State AOhio State B9710
Paritosh PurohitBristolSouthampton A9710
Taaj RaiGeorge Washington BMaryland A97-5
William BrokerHaverford BPenn B97-5
Henry BonWinona StateCarleton9910
Anne FjeldAlbertaUW B109-5
Giuseppe PiccirilliBinghamton ARIT A110-5
John John GrogerWashU BWashU A11210
Liam StarnesChicago BChicago D11210
Conor ThompsonIowa StateWisconsin B11210
Roan DowlingIowaNorthwestern B11210
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CCambridge E112-5
Jacob EgolDukeWake Forest11310
Jaehyun ParkBUDartmouth A11310
Jaik HavlickASUTexas A11310
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegeColumbia B11310
Aryan DesarapuMichigan ACarnegie Mellon B11610
Arjun BothraHaverford AVassar A11610
Maya KvaratskheliaNotre Dame AGeorgetown B121-5
Jonathan SchnipperBrandeis ABrown A12210
Ian McDowellCambridge CDurham12210
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaUNC C12410
Joseph ChambersVirginia AWilliam & Mary12510
Joshua BobinImperial BCambridge B12510
Caleb HinesLiberty ALiberty C12610
Arunn SankarGeorgia Tech BTennessee A12610
Ryan JudgeCarnegie Mellon ACase Western B12710
Noah ChinVirginia Tech ALiberty B12710
Jeffrey AustinUNC DUNC B12710
Jon WhiteCambridge ENYU C12710
Gregory StoneESF ACornell C12710
Michael SunBrandeis BTufts A12810
Sophie HiggsUW AUBC12810
Jackson McDonaldAlabama AGeorgia Tech A12810
Monish JampalaGeorgia Tech DLouisville A12810
Fahim AfzalCambridge DOxford C12810
Aidan RoulletRIT ABinghamton A12810
Kritanu SahaCornell DRIT B12810
Samuel StellaFlorida State AFlorida B12910
Khanh NguyenFlorida AUCF B12910
Henry KeatingUCF CValencia A1290
Clete ReinbergerValencia AUCF C1290
Noah DeanKenyonMichigan State12910
Christian AllenMissoui S&TIllinois B12910
Samarth RamChicago CChicago A12910
Drew ScheinerMissouriIllinois A12910
Sriram KoritalaIllinois CIndiana A12910
Puna EkkaMinnesota BWisconsin A12910
Jerry ZhangHarvard BUMass Boston12910
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AMIT A12910
Ben HorningGeorgetown BNotre Dame A12910
Jonah HubertNotre Dame BGeorgetown A12910
Yaj JhajhriaUW BAlberta12910
Keerthana KrishnanTexas BTAMU12910
Yuxuan LuVanderbilt AGeorgia Tech C12910
Jacob PriceSheffieldOxford A12910
Zosia MikolajczukSouthampton BCambridge A1290
Kai MadgwickManchesterOxford B12910
Patrick TorreMaryland AGeorge Washington B12910
Anirudh BharadwajPenn ANYU A12910
Vedh RameshPenn BHaverford B12910
Nicholas LaneGeorge Washington AColumbia C12910