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 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto A | 12 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Amherst A | 13 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | OSU B | CWRU B | 17 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brown A | 17 | 10 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 19 | 10 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | North Carolina B | 21 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 22 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Toronto F | 22 | -5 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale B | 23 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 25 | 10 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 25 | -5 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 27 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 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 |
| Emmy Zhou | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 82 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | SIUE | 82 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA C | 84 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | UF E | 92 | -5 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | USF | 92 | 10 |
| Hayden Willett | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 93 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | BC B | 93 | -5 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | Claremont Scripps | 93 | -5 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | McGill C | 93 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhao | Maryland C | Penn A | 97 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt C | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Chicago A | 101 | 10 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Purdue A | 101 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 101 | -5 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 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 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Louisville A | 113 | 10 |
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | Washington A | 113 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Penn B | 113 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 114 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Michigan D | 115 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | Tufts B | 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 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Queen's B | 120 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell-DII | 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 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois A | 127 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Yale A | 127 | -5 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Notre Dame E | 127 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 127 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | McMaster A | 128 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | CWRU C | 128 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 128 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville B | 128 | -5 |
| Jon Suh | Harvard | Brandeis Wilson | 128 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | George Washington A | 128 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 128 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Illinois C | 132 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Indiana B | 132 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia A | 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 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | UIC | 132 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 132 | 0 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Williams | 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 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | George Mason B | 132 | 0 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Maryland A | 132 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | ESF | 132 | 0 |