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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 42 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | BU | 42 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Stanford C | 44 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 46 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto I | 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 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | Claremont Scripps | 93 | -5 |
| Hayden Willett | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 93 | 10 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | McGill C | 93 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | BC B | 93 | -5 |
| Nathan Zhao | Maryland C | Penn A | 97 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt C | 99 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 101 | -5 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Simon Fraser | 105 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 106 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 106 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Guelph A | 107 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 107 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Waterloo | 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 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Penn B | 113 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Louisville A | 113 | 10 |
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | Washington A | 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 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Queen's B | 120 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell-DII | 120 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | FIU | 120 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | Melbourne B | 120 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT A | Binghamton B | 122 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 123 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | MSU B | 123 | 10 |
| Frank Schuster | MSU A | OSU C | 126 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Yale A | 127 | -5 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | James Madison | 127 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 127 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois A | 127 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF A | ERAU B | 127 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Notre Dame E | 127 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 127 | 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 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | McMaster A | 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 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Toronto E | 129 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 130 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 130 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 132 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 132 | 0 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 132 | 0 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Maryland A | 132 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Illinois C | 132 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Indiana B | 132 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 132 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan B | 132 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | UIC | 132 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 132 | 10 |
| Teshawn McDonald | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 132 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | ESF | 132 | 0 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto K | 132 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | ERAU A | 132 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | George Mason B | 132 | 0 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Williams | 132 | 0 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia A | 132 | 10 |