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 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 80 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | George Washington B | 80 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 80 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 80 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Arizona State A | 81 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia A | 81 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 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 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Arizona State B | 84 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Alberta | 84 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Rose State | 85 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | Cornell-UG | 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 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill C | 97 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 97 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 97 | -5 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont Scripps | UCLA D | 97 | -5 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Liberty A | 97 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU B | 99 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | St. Thomas | 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 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 105 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 105 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Carleton | 106 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 106 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 106 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington A | 106 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Virginia Tech B | 106 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 106 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | FIU | 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 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | McMaster C | 109 | -5 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Toronto D | 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 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 109 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina B | North Carolina C | 109 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 109 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | CWRU C | 109 | 10 |
| Nico Pascual | MSU B | Pitt C | 109 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | MIT B | 109 | -5 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 109 | -5 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | Washington B | 109 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Waterloo | 110 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 110 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 112 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF C | 112 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | UF D | USF | 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 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 119 | 10 |
| Claire Chambers | Binghamton A | RIT B | 119 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UCF A | 119 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | BC A | 119 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Nebraska | 120 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 120 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 120 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 120 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU A | 120 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 120 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 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 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Columbia B | 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 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Catholic University | 129 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 129 | 10 |
| Daniel Pace-Farr | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UCF B | 129 | 10 |
| Eli Zimmerman | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 129 | 10 |
| Lance Hulme | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 129 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Washington A | 129 | 10 |