In 2022, researchers showed that a city in this modern-day country used dhaka pits to store water. A “pattern” named for this modern-day country was distinguished from the “central cattle pattern” by Thomas Huffman, who also investigated the “tradition” of this modern-day country’s site of Leopard’s Kopje (“COP-yuh”). The Torwa dynasty ruled a gold-trading kingdom once located in this modern-day country centered at Khami. Many daga buildings were found in the “Valley Ruins” of a city in this modern-day country where a conical tower was located in its “Great Enclosure.” A city in this modern-day country contained the “Hill Complex,” the hypothesized original location of eight soapstone birds. For 10 points, what modern-day country contains the site of a “Great” African city founded by the Shona people? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.67 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.67 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.33 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 113.67 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.20 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 105.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 106.25 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Cambridge E | 72 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF C | 74 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF B | 82 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Iowa State | 84 | -5 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 85 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Cambridge D | 86 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge A | 86 | -5 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois B | 87 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 87 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 87 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | UCLA | 88 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 88 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 88 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 88 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | UNC C | 88 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 88 | 10 |
| Claire Jones | Chicago A | WashU B | 88 | 10 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Harvard A | 88 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard B | 88 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 88 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 88 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 88 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge C | 88 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Cornell B | 88 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | Rutgers A | 88 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 90 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Carleton | 90 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | BU | 90 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 90 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Brown A | 92 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Penn B | 92 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT B | 92 | 10 |
| Soren Heydari | UNC B | South Carolina | 93 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 93 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 93 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 93 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Valencia A | 94 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago D | 95 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Maryland A | 95 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 95 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Southampton B | 98 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Southampton A | 106 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 106 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | George Washington A | 106 | 10 |
| Ethan Siskel | Tufts A | Brandeis A | 108 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Wake Forest | 109 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 109 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Oxford C | 109 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 113 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Warwick B | 120 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Durham | 120 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 120 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 124 | 10 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 125 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary | Liberty B | 126 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Minnesota B | 126 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | LSE | 126 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | NYU C | 126 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Columbia B | 126 | 10 |