Four deputies titled for these structures represented the Maḥdī during the Minor Occultation. One figure named for this structure began his religious career after seeing seven drops of blood on another’s throat, and is buried on Mount Carmel. Salman the Persian is the final person to fill a role named for these structures in Alawism, which comprises a trinity along with the Manifestation and the Name. In the first of a collection of Zen kōans titled for one of these structures lacking itself, a dog replies “mu” when asked if it has Buddha-nature. Vermillion examples of these structures mark places where kami enter into the human realm in Shintō shrines. For 10 points, bāb and torii are words for what structures, through which Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 107.50 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 103.75 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.86 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.14 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 111.10 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 108.91 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 111.60 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 111.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 99.75 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 100.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 94.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 40 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 52 | -5 |
| Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 52 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia B | 54 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Texas B | 55 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Yale A | 58 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Notre Dame E | 62 | -5 |
| Haley Kuehn | Roanoke | Tusculum | 65 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 76 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA A | 78 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 79 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Guelph B | 80 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | George Washington B | 80 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 80 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 80 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 80 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia A | 81 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Arizona State A | 81 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley E | 82 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto G | 82 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto J | 82 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | VCU A | 82 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU C | 82 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 82 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU B | 82 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU A | 82 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 82 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Alberta | 84 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State B | 84 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | Cornell-UG | 85 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Rose State | 85 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Columbia A | 86 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Missouri B | 86 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Harvard | 86 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Georgetown A | 92 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont Scripps | UCLA D | 97 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill C | 97 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 97 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 97 | -5 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Liberty A | 97 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | St. Thomas | 99 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU B | 99 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster A | 101 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 101 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 102 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | NC State | 103 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster B | 104 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 105 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 105 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Carleton | 106 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 106 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Virginia Tech B | 106 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 106 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington A | 106 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | FIU | 106 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Rowan A | 106 | 10 |
| Jackson Hatcher | Nebraska | Iowa State | 106 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina A | 106 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 106 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 107 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 107 | -5 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 107 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 108 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 109 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | McMaster C | 109 | -5 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Toronto D | 109 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | North Carolina C | 109 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 109 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Columbia C | 109 | -5 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 109 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | MIT B | 109 | -5 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | CWRU C | 109 | 10 |
| Nico Pascual | MSU B | Pitt C | 109 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 109 | -5 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | Washington B | 109 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 109 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Waterloo | 110 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 110 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF C | 112 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | USF | 112 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 112 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | OSU D | 112 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | WashU D | 114 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's A | 115 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | NYU B | 115 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 117 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 119 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UCF A | 119 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 119 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | BC A | 119 | 10 |
| Claire Chambers | Binghamton A | RIT B | 119 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 120 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 120 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU A | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 120 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Nebraska | 120 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 120 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 120 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC B | 122 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brown C | 123 | 10 |
| AnnaLee Simpson | Tusculum | Roanoke | 124 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Toronto I | 125 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 125 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Iowa | 128 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 129 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 129 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Catholic University | 129 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 129 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Columbia B | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UCF B | 129 | 10 |
| Eli Zimmerman | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 129 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | James Madison | 129 | 10 |
| Hannah Worthen | Liberty C | Liberty B | 129 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 129 | 10 |
| Lance Hulme | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 129 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Washington A | 129 | 10 |
| Daniel Pace-Farr | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 129 | 10 |