In quinoa, class-1 HKT proteins load this element into bladder cells. Variations in hydrogen concentration in the brain cause acid-sensing pH sensor proteins to mainly transport this element. Paralytic shellfish poisoning occurs when alkaloids like saxitoxin block the transport of this element. A symporter of glucose and this element called SGLT2 is found in proximal tubules. Subunits of proteins that conduct this element contain six transmembrane passes and are voltage-gated. An ion of this element enters neurons during action potential firing. Blockers for this element’s channels can be used to treat arrhythmia. Hydrolysis of ATP pumps three atoms of this element out of cells against potassium. For 10 points, name this element found alongside chloride in table salt. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 67.40 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 94.67 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 58% | 95.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 98.57 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 91.43 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 89.80 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 64% | 96.64 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.20 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.25 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 101.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 42% | 88.42 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.75 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 86.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 96.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto B | 22 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF A | 38 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 41 | -5 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 41 | -5 |
| Stanley Lam | McMaster B | Toronto K | 41 | -5 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 41 | -5 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | NYU A | 41 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 41 | 10 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | ESF | 41 | -5 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Rose State | 43 | -5 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 43 | -5 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 45 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto G | 45 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 47 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 48 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Maryland A | 48 | -5 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 48 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | Pitt A | 49 | 10 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Columbia B | 49 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers B | 49 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Alberta | 49 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 50 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 50 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 50 | -5 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | MIT A | 50 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 50 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC B | 53 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia A | Simon Fraser | 53 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Williams | 55 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU C | 55 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Ohio | 58 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 62 | -5 |
| Aditya Koushik | Stanford C | Stanford A | 69 | -5 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 69 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri B | 69 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 69 | 10 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 70 | -5 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 73 | -5 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Iowa State | 74 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA A | 74 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD A | 76 | -5 |
| Connor Farquhar | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 77 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 78 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 78 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | Washington B | 78 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU A | 78 | -5 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | FSU | 78 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | Melbourne A | 78 | -5 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 79 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 79 | -5 |
| Kathryn Tran | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 79 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington A | 79 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 79 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | OSU D | 79 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 79 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 80 | -5 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 80 | 10 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | Toronto C | 80 | 10 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | UF D | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Rochester | 80 | -5 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | CWRU C | 80 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | OSU A | 80 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Roanoke | 80 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Notre Dame E | 80 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Maryland D | 80 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Washington A | 80 | -5 |
| Elias Ziyadeh | Penn A | Georgetown A | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | MIT B | 80 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's A | 81 | 10 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 81 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | McGill D | 81 | -5 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton A | 81 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Toronto D | 86 | -5 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU D | 87 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | George Washington B | 90 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Lloyd George | 92 | -5 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Toronto Metropolitan | 100 | -5 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brown B | 103 | 10 |
| Ann Sha | UMBC A | George Mason A | 104 | -5 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Carleton | 105 | -5 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Clemson B | 105 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 105 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 105 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 105 | -5 |
| Neiv Sinha | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 105 | 10 |
| Dominik Polley | Carleton | St. Thomas | 105 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Liberty C | 105 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brown C | 105 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 105 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF E | 106 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 107 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 108 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 108 | 10 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 108 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | Texas A | 109 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA C | 111 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 111 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 113 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State | Tennessee B | 113 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | USF | 114 | 10 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 116 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | NYU B | 117 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 118 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph A | 118 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McMaster C | 118 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 118 | 0 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 118 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 118 | 10 |
| Vikram Rajmohan | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 118 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 118 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 118 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | UCO | 118 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Guelph B | 118 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McGill A | 118 | 10 |
| Jeremy Kim | Toronto K | McMaster B | 118 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Waterloo | 118 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | Melbourne B | 118 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 118 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF B | 118 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | William Woods | 118 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Nebraska | 118 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 118 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | Pitt C | 118 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU B | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 118 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 118 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 118 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 118 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 118 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 118 | 10 |