Archaeologists in this country hope to find all fifty of the “Elliq-Qala,” or “Fifty Forts,” including castles at Guldursun and Toprak. Toxic dust storms cause chronic illnesses in this country’s depopulated city of Moynaq, home to a “cemetery of boats.” Most of the Karakalpak people live in this country around a river delta home to the cities of Nukus and Urgench. This country’s main ethnic group speaks the second most widely-spoken Turkic language, which is closely related to Uighur. The city of Andijan lies in this country’s section of the Ferghana Valley. Before the effects of irrigation for cotton growing, the Amu Darya met the Aral Sea in this country. For 10 points, what most populous country in Central Asia contains cities like Samarkand and Tashkent? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.67 |
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| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 85.50 |
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| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 88.10 |
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| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | William & Mary | 18 | -5 |
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Iowa | 31 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | John Jay College | 33 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 37 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Durham | 37 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 37 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Harvard B | 39 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge E | 42 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | UCF B | 43 | 10 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Ohio State A | 43 | -5 |
| Christopher Dekermanji | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 43 | -5 |
| Gabe Dubowski | Illinois B | Missouri | 43 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Oxford A | 44 | -5 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | Texas A | 45 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 48 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 48 | 10 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 48 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Wake Forest | 48 | 10 |
| Paritosh Purohit | Bristol | LSE | 48 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford B | 48 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 48 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | BU | 48 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Cambridge B | 50 | -5 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Southampton B | 53 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Valencia A | 56 | -5 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan D | 58 | 10 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Michigan C | 58 | 10 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Georgetown A | 60 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Southampton A | 60 | -5 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | South Carolina | 60 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago D | Chicago C | 66 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Illinois A | 68 | 10 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 69 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF C | 71 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago A | 71 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | NYU C | 72 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Yale A | 72 | -5 |
| Ben Sterling | Yale A | NYU A | 72 | 0 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 72 | -5 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Purdue | 73 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | TAMU | 75 | -5 |
| Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | George Washington A | 75 | -5 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 78 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 82 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | Illinois C | 91 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Brandeis A | 91 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU B | Indiana B | 98 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | Case Western A | Carnegie Mellon B | 99 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 99 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Oxford C | 99 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 99 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell D | 99 | -5 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT A | 101 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 102 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 106 | 10 |
| Oliver Thompson | Case Western B | Michigan A | 109 | -5 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA | Claremont B | 109 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Maryland A | 123 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 123 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Brown A | 123 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC B | Duke | 125 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Warwick B | 125 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida A | 126 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Kenyon | 126 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Case Western B | 126 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern A | 126 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 126 | 10 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | ASU | 126 | 10 |
| Nathan Whittington | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 126 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Cambridge D | 126 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial B | 126 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Liberty A | 126 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | WashU A | 126 | 10 |
| Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Warwick A | 126 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 126 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere-Roberts | George Washington A | George Washington B | 126 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Rutgers A | 126 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Penn A | 126 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 126 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Tufts A | 126 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | UMass Boston | 126 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 126 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 126 | 10 |