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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 48 | 10 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Chicago B | 48 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 56 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 56 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UBC | 60 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 60 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 63 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Kenyon | 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 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 72 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF A | 72 | -5 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | RIT A | 72 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Michigan D | 87 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 87 | -5 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | Cornell C | 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 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Haverford A | 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 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago A | 93 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | Missouri | 93 | -5 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 97 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Columbia C | 97 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 97 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Cole Humble | Liberty B | Wake Forest | 116 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 116 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | George Washington A | 116 | -5 |
| John Chen | UBC | Alberta | 120 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Duke | 127 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan C | Case Western A | 128 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Michigan A | 128 | 10 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Michigan State | 128 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia B | 128 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF C | 128 | 0 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | Liberty A | 128 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 128 | 0 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 128 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | John Jay College | 128 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Binghamton A | 128 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 128 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 128 | 0 |
| 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 |