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 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | ESF | 41 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 41 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | Pitt A | 49 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Alberta | 49 | 10 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Columbia B | 49 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers B | 49 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 50 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 50 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 50 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 50 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | MIT A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 79 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 79 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington A | 79 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 79 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | OSU D | 79 | 10 |
| Kathryn Tran | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 79 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 79 | -5 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 80 | 10 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | UF D | 80 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 80 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Rochester | 80 | -5 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | Toronto C | 80 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | MIT B | 80 | -5 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 81 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | McGill D | 81 | -5 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton A | 81 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's 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 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 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 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Carleton | 105 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF B | 118 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 118 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 118 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 118 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | UCO | 118 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 118 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 118 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 118 | 10 |
| Vikram Rajmohan | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 118 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 118 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 118 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 118 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McMaster C | 118 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 118 | 0 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | William Woods | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Nebraska | 118 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 118 | 10 |