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 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 84.50 |
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| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 111.00 |
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| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 85.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 74.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 88.10 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 43% | 120.50 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 117.67 |
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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 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 37 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 37 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Durham | 37 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Harvard B | 39 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge E | 42 | 10 |
| Gabe Dubowski | Illinois B | Missouri | 43 | 10 |
| Christopher Dekermanji | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 43 | -5 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | UCF B | 43 | 10 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Ohio State A | 43 | -5 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Oxford A | 44 | -5 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | Texas A | 45 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 48 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | BU | 48 | -5 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 48 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Wake Forest | 48 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 48 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 48 | 10 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
| Paritosh Purohit | Bristol | LSE | 48 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford B | 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 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | South Carolina | 60 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Southampton A | 60 | -5 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago D | Chicago C | 66 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Illinois A | 68 | 10 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 69 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago A | 71 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF C | 71 | -5 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 72 | -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 |
| 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 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell D | 99 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 99 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | Case Western A | Carnegie Mellon B | 99 | -5 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Oxford C | 99 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 99 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT A | 101 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 102 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 106 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA | Claremont B | 109 | 10 |
| Oliver Thompson | Case Western B | Michigan A | 109 | -5 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Brown A | 123 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Maryland A | 123 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 123 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC B | Duke | 125 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Warwick B | 125 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | WashU 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 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern A | 126 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 126 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 126 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 126 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida A | 126 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Liberty A | 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 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 126 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Kenyon | 126 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Case Western B | 126 | 10 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | ASU | 126 | 10 |
| Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Warwick A | 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 |