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 |
| Stanley Lam | McMaster B | Toronto K | 41 | -5 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 41 | -5 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 41 | -5 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins 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 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto G | 45 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 45 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 47 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 48 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Maryland A | 48 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 48 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Alberta | 49 | 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 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 50 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | MIT A | 50 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 50 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 50 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 50 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia A | Simon Fraser | 53 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC B | 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 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 69 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 70 | -5 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA A | 74 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Iowa State | 74 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD A | 76 | -5 |
| Connor Farquhar | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 77 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 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 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 79 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | OSU D | 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 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 79 | -5 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 79 | 10 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 80 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | Toronto C | 80 | 10 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | UF D | 80 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's A | 81 | 10 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 81 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton A | 81 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | McGill D | 81 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 105 | -5 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 105 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brown C | 105 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 105 | -5 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Clemson B | 105 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Liberty C | 105 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 105 | 10 |
| Neiv Sinha | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 105 | 10 |
| Dominik Polley | Carleton | St. Thomas | 105 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF E | 106 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 107 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 108 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 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 |
| Walter Carson | NC State | Tennessee B | 113 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 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 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph A | 118 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McMaster C | 118 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 118 | 0 |
| 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 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF B | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 118 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 118 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 118 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 118 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 118 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 118 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | UCO | 118 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 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 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 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 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 118 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 118 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | Melbourne B | 118 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | ERAU 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 |