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 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | NYU A | 41 | 10 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | ESF | 41 | -5 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 41 | -5 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 41 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 41 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 43 | -5 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Rose State | 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 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 48 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Maryland A | 48 | -5 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Columbia B | 49 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers B | 49 | 10 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | Pitt A | 49 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Alberta | 49 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 50 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 50 | -5 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 50 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU C | 55 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Williams | 55 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Ohio | 58 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 62 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri B | 69 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU A | 78 | -5 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | FSU | 78 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | Melbourne A | 78 | -5 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 78 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | Washington B | 78 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 78 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 79 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | OSU D | 79 | 10 |
| Kathryn Tran | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 79 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington A | 79 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 79 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 79 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 79 | -5 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | UF D | 80 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Washington A | 80 | -5 |
| Elias Ziyadeh | Penn A | Georgetown A | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 80 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 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 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 80 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Rochester | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | MIT B | 80 | -5 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 81 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton A | 81 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's 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 |
| Neiv Sinha | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 105 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Liberty C | 105 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 105 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 105 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Clemson B | 105 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty 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 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 108 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 108 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Clemson 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 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph 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 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 118 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | William Woods | 118 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 118 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 118 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 118 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Nebraska | 118 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 118 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 118 | 10 |