Hunting and chess are compared to ruling properly in the asides of a history of this empire called the “Comfort of the Chest.” The rise of this empire is connected to the historiographical concept of the “Sunni Revival” that followed the “Shia Century.” The Book of Government, or Siyasatnama, was written by a statesman of this empire. The atabeg Nizam al-Mulk served this empire, which patronized Omar Khayyam. Shia opposition to this empire led to the foundation of the Order of Assassins. The first beyliks and the Sultanate of Rum emerged in territory newly conquered by this empire after its ruler captured the Emperor Romanos IV in battle. For 10 points, Alp Arslan ruled what Turkish empire that expanded into Anatolia after it defeated the Byzantines at Manzikert? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 61.50 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 42.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 108.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 109.67 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 89.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 123.67 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 95.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 88.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 44% | 104.71 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 100% | 106.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida A | 42 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | WashU B | 46 | 10 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Chicago B | 48 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 48 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 56 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 56 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 60 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UBC | 60 | -5 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Kenyon | 63 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 63 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Cornell B | 68 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 69 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | ASU | 69 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF A | 72 | -5 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | RIT A | 72 | -5 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 72 | 10 |
| Oliver Thompson | Case Western B | Ohio State A | 81 | -5 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Virginia A | 81 | -5 |
| Chris Scheri | RIT A | RIT B | 84 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | Cornell C | 87 | -5 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Michigan D | 87 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 87 | -5 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Michigan C | 89 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 89 | -5 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | South Carolina | 89 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 89 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UCSD | 90 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago D | 91 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 92 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Indiana B | 92 | -5 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 92 | -5 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Brown A | 92 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Dartmouth A | 92 | 10 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard A | Harvard B | 92 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Haverford A | 92 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago A | 93 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | Missouri | 93 | -5 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Columbia C | 97 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 97 | -5 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 97 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | William & Mary | 104 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis A | 107 | -5 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 107 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 110 | 10 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Maryland A | 112 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC B | Liberty C | 114 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 115 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | George Washington A | 116 | -5 |
| Cole Humble | Liberty B | Wake Forest | 116 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 116 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC | Alberta | 120 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Duke | 127 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 128 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF C | 128 | 0 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan C | Case Western A | 128 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Michigan A | 128 | 10 |
| Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Haverford B | 128 | 0 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | NYU B | 128 | 0 |
| Elijah Scheinson | Columbia C | Penn A | 128 | 10 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington A | Penn B | 128 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Binghamton A | 128 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 128 | 0 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Michigan State | 128 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | Liberty A | 128 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago C | 128 | 10 |
| Drew Scheiner | Missouri | Missoui S&T | 128 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 128 | 10 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Winona State | 128 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 128 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 128 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia B | 128 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | John Jay College | 128 | 10 |