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 |
| Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 52 | -5 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 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 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 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 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Guelph B | 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 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU B | 82 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 82 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU A | 82 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Harvard | 86 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Columbia A | 86 | -5 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Missouri B | 86 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Georgetown A | 92 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont Scripps | UCLA D | 97 | -5 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Liberty A | 97 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill C | 97 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 97 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 97 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | FIU | 106 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 107 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 107 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 107 | -5 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 108 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | OSU D | 112 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 112 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | WashU D | 114 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 115 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's A | 115 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | NYU B | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UCF A | 119 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | BC A | 119 | 10 |
| Claire Chambers | Binghamton A | RIT B | 119 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 119 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 119 | 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 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 120 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 120 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 120 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Nebraska | 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 |
| 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 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 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 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 129 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Columbia B | 129 | 10 |