For unknown reasons, the stele erected at this ruler’s Qiánlíng mausoleum was left wordless. Potentially for political purposes, this ruler promoted Buddhism, constructing a Dàyún Temple in each prefecture in the two capitals region. The Buddhist monk Huáiyì promulgated the Great Cloud Sutra to legitimize this ruler before being put to death for setting fire to some palace buildings. This ruler elevated Luòyáng to the primary capital, and might have modeled for the face of the largest Buddha statue at the Lóngmén Grottoes. This ruler oversaw the rebuilding of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. Following the death of Emperor Tàizōng of Táng, this founder of a Zhōu (“joe”) dynasty was sent to be a nun at Gānyè (“gahn-yeh”) Temple as a former concubine. For 10 points, name this only empress regnant of Imperial China. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 34.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 84.17 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 9% | 99.70 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 120.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.14 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 101.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 103.00 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 116.25 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 55.00 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 115.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 124.00 |
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| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto A | 12 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Amherst A | 13 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brown A | 17 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | OSU B | CWRU B | 17 | 10 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 19 | 10 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | North Carolina B | 21 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Toronto F | 22 | -5 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 22 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale B | 23 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 25 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 25 | -5 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 27 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 27 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | WashU D | 31 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 33 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | MIT A | 38 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | BU | 42 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 42 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Stanford C | 44 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto I | 46 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 46 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Manchester B | 49 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 50 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 53 | 10 |
| Aiden Hart | Kentucky | Notre Dame A | 54 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown C | 70 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Chicago C | 81 | -5 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | SIUE | 82 | 10 |
| Emmy Zhou | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 82 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA C | 84 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | UF E | 92 | -5 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | USF | 92 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | BC B | 93 | -5 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | Claremont Scripps | 93 | -5 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | McGill C | 93 | 10 |
| Hayden Willett | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 93 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhao | Maryland C | Penn A | 97 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt C | 99 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 101 | -5 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 101 | 10 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Purdue A | 101 | -5 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Chicago A | 101 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Simon Fraser | 105 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 106 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 106 | -5 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Waterloo | 107 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 107 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Guelph A | 107 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 108 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Washington B | British Columbia D | 110 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCI | 111 | 10 |
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | Washington A | 113 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Penn B | 113 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Louisville A | 113 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 114 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | Tufts B | 115 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Michigan D | 115 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Missouri A | 116 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | FIU | 120 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | Melbourne B | 120 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell-DII | 120 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Queen's B | 120 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | Binghamton B | 122 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | MSU B | 123 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 123 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | OSU C | 126 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF A | ERAU B | 127 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | James Madison | 127 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 127 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Notre Dame E | 127 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois A | 127 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 127 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Yale A | 127 | -5 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | McMaster A | 128 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | CWRU C | 128 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 128 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | George Washington A | 128 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 128 | 10 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard | Brandeis Wilson | 128 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville B | 128 | -5 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Toronto E | 129 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 130 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 130 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | ERAU A | 132 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Williams | 132 | 0 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia A | 132 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | ESF | 132 | 0 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 132 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 132 | 0 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 132 | 0 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto K | 132 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UF D | 132 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 132 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | North Carolina C | 132 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 132 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | George Mason B | 132 | 0 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | UIC | 132 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Illinois C | 132 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Indiana B | 132 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Maryland A | 132 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan B | 132 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 132 | 10 |
| Teshawn McDonald | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 132 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 132 | 0 |