During a massacre in this city, Cardinal John was beheaded and his head dragged through the street by a dog. According to Robert of Clari, Philip of Swabia was inspired to lay siege to this city after receiving the son of a deposed monarch. After a siege that captured this city’s Blachernae (“bla-CAIR-nay”) neighborhood, Baldwin IX was crowned, beginning this city’s Frankokratia. The neighboring town of Galata was used to stage an invasion of this city by Boniface of Montferrat. The Empire of Trebizond was created after that sack, which was partly prompted by unpaid debts to Enrico Dandolo. The Latin Empire was established after a siege of this city that included the landing of soldiers on this city’s Golden Horn. For 10 points, the Fourth Crusade sacked what capital of the Byzantine Empire? ■END■
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 31% | 99.69 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 107.90 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 107.67 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 92.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 88.91 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 104.88 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 96.38 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 36% | 91.36 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Guelph A | 52 | 10 |
| Truman Hill | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 55 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Missouri A | 56 | -5 |
| Aidan Ross | George Washington B | Maryland C | 56 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech B | 56 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster C | 57 | -5 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU B | 57 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU D | 57 | -5 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Manchester B | 57 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Maryland B | 57 | -5 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Washington A | 58 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn B | 58 | -5 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Carleton | 59 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown B | 59 | -5 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 59 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Imperial A | 59 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto D | 60 | -5 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Toronto I | 60 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 60 | -5 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Kentucky | 60 | -5 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Louisville A | 60 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 60 | -5 |
| Raifton Bartling | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 60 | -5 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Bristol B | 61 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown C | 62 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Tufts B | 62 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 62 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Penn A | 63 | 10 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Toronto G | 65 | -5 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard | Brown A | 65 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Indiana A | 65 | 10 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 65 | -5 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 65 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester A | Oxford A | 65 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Warwick B | 65 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 67 | -5 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto B | 69 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Cornell-UG | 69 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill B | 71 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Sheffield B | 71 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 71 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Indiana B | 73 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 73 | 10 |
| Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov | Brandeis Orlando | Brandeis Wilson | 74 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | McGill D | 74 | 10 |
| Roo Tapia | Louisville B | Illinois A | 76 | -5 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Purdue B | 84 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Catholic University | 85 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | Texas A | 85 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Bruin A | 86 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Amherst A | 87 | 10 |
| Youyou Yu | Imperial C | Durham B | 87 | 10 |
| David Thomas | Purdue C | Notre Dame B | 90 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 90 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Auburn B | 90 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 92 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 93 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 94 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Alabama A | 95 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McMaster A | 97 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | MIT B | 97 | 10 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Yale B | 100 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | George Mason B | 100 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | LSE B | 100 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Cambridge D | 100 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 100 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD B | 100 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan C | 102 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 104 | -5 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Yale A | 105 | 10 |
| Hassan Elshayeb | Waterloo | Guelph B | 109 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 119 | 10 |
| Ethan Buermann | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Eddon | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 119 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Johns Hopkins B | 119 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | UCO | 119 | 10 |
| Elijah Pollock | UTD A | Iowa | 122 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 124 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Georgetown A | 124 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Warwick A | 126 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Queen's B | 128 | 10 |
| Orion Brey | Louisville A | Illinois C | 131 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | UAB A | 131 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh A | LSE A | 131 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Louisville B | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Queen's A | 133 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Ottawa | 133 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto F | 133 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 133 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Bowdoin B | 133 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | SIUE | 133 | 10 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | William Woods | 133 | 10 |
| Charlie Castleton | Sheffield C | Southampton A | 133 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 133 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 133 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | NYU B | 133 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 133 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Ohio | 133 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Rose State | 133 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 133 | 10 |