A 2022 Consumer Reports investigation found high levels of heavy metals like cadmium and lead in this product. The voluntary Harkin–Engel protocol has been ineffective in eliminating forced labor in this product. Poor harvests due to extreme weather and blights like black pod disease caused prices for this product to reach record highs in 2024. A 2021 Supreme Court case dismissed a child labor lawsuit filed by kidnapped workers producing this product in Côte d’Ivoire, citing lack of standing to sue multinational companies producing this food like Ferrero. A type of this food with a filling of knafeh (“k’NAH-feh”) and pistachio went viral on TikTok in 2024 and is named for Dubai. For 10 points, name this food made from fermented cocoa beans that comes in milk and dark variants. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 68.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 17.00 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 46% | 78.54 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 74.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 43% | 77.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 83.70 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 86.40 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 89.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 104.75 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 87.08 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 53.20 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 80.50 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 71.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 57.63 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 60.25 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 68.07 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 32.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | Alberta | 2 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley A | 14 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech C | 14 | -5 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 14 | 10 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley E | Stanford B | 17 | -5 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCLA D | 17 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Queen's B | 17 | -5 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Toronto E | 17 | -5 |
| June Miller | UF B | FSU | 17 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | Kenyon B | 17 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | OSU D | 17 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | George Washington A | 17 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | VCU A | 17 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Penn A | 17 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rowan A | 17 | -5 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | WashU A | 17 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Missouri A | 17 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Chicago D | 17 | -5 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Michigan C | 17 | -5 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Louisville B | 17 | -5 |
| Ai Xing | Minnesota B | Macalester B | 17 | -5 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester A | 17 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | BC B | 17 | -5 |
| William Arnesen | Harvard | Tufts B | 17 | -5 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 17 | -5 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UCO | 17 | 10 |
| James Morgan | Oxford A | Bristol A | 17 | -5 |
| David Worley | LSE A | Imperial A | 17 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Imperial B | 17 | -5 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge D | Manchester B | 17 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | LSE B | 17 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford C | 19 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | Clemson A | 19 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina A | 19 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Georgetown B | 19 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | Pitt B | 20 | -5 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | Truman State | 20 | -5 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge B | 20 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto D | 21 | 10 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | ERAU A | 21 | -5 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | Virginia Tech A | 21 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 24 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Kentucky | 24 | -5 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 24 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia A | 24 | 10 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Brandeis Orlando | 26 | -5 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Nebraska | 30 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | UCSC | 31 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto B | 31 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill A | Toronto C | 31 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | CWRU B | 31 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | UIC | 31 | -5 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT A | 31 | 10 |
| Jason Hatfield | Huntsville B | Alabama A | 31 | 10 |
| Jack Didsbury | Durham B | Sheffield C | 32 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern B | 33 | 10 |
| Yarden Wallace | Syracuse | Cornell-DII | 33 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Yale B | 34 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU A | 35 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Minnesota C | 36 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Huntsville A | 37 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Rochester | 37 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McMaster C | 39 | -5 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | George Mason C | 43 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 43 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern A | 43 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick B | 43 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brown B | 44 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF B | 45 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | Tennessee A | 45 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee A | 45 | 10 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington B | 46 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | ESF | 47 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 48 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Williams | 48 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Rose State | 48 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | UAB A | 48 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Cambridge A | 48 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | Maryland C | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | Dartmouth | 50 | -5 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech D | 50 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto I | 52 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Warwick A | 52 | -5 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McGill C | 54 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | FIU | 54 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Clemson B | 54 | -5 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Catholic University | 54 | -5 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | UMBC A | 54 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | SIUE | 54 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue B | 54 | -5 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton | 54 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Sheffield B | 54 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Arizona State A | 56 | -5 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | MSU A | 57 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Tusculum | 61 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Columbia B | 63 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford A | 64 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Michigan B | 64 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Pitt C | 65 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Texas B | 68 | 10 |
| Thomas Catuosco | Rutgers B | Columbia C | 73 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 74 | -5 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Western Ontario | 74 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 74 | -5 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | Notre Dame E | 74 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 74 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan A | 74 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol A | Oxford A | 74 | 10 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Carleton | 75 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | James Madison | 75 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt A | 75 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McMaster A | 76 | -5 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Guelph A | 76 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | NC State | 77 | 10 |
| Yanis Vencatachellum | ERAU B | Melbourne B | 78 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia B | 78 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Louisville A | 78 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Yale A | 78 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | UTD A | 78 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Chicago C | 83 | 10 |
| Daniel Pace-Farr | Arizona State A | Northwestern C | 85 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Manchester A | 85 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Edinburgh A | 86 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | Melbourne A | 87 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | UCF A | 87 | 10 |
| Jai Spicer | Roanoke | Liberty C | 87 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee B | 87 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | George Mason B | 87 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Purdue C | 87 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Amherst B | 87 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Brown C | 87 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Simon Fraser | 87 | 10 |
| Owen Feng | Vanderbilt B | Bruin A | 87 | 10 |
| Ella Keavy | Bristol B | City St George's A | 87 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Southampton B | 87 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | UTD B | 89 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Imperial C | 89 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Lehigh B | 90 | 10 |
| Nishad Joshi | Kentucky | Illinois C | 95 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 96 | 10 |
| Yishak Kelkay | ERAU A | USF | 97 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley F | 101 | 10 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | North Carolina B | 102 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Indiana B | 105 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill C | McGill B | 108 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 109 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | OSU C | 110 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Pitt A | 113 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Michigan D | 113 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | William Woods | 115 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto F | 116 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Birmingham A | 116 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 118 | 10 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Illinois B | 119 | 10 |
| Brody Davidow | George Washington A | Georgetown A | 121 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU C | 121 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley E | 125 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Amherst A | 127 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | OSU B | 128 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia C | 128 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Guelph B | 129 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | McMaster B | 129 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto H | 129 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Virginia A | 129 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Johns Hopkins A | 129 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | NYU A | 129 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU B | 129 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 129 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Princeton A | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU D | 129 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Illinois A | 129 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota B | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | Bowdoin B | 129 | 10 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Brandeis Wilson | 129 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Harvard | 129 | 10 |