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 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 41 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 48 | 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 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 48 | 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 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | Pitt A | 49 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | MIT A | 50 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 50 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 50 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 50 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 50 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 69 | -5 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 69 | 10 |
| Aditya Koushik | Stanford C | Stanford A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 78 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 79 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 79 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 79 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington A | 79 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 79 | -5 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | OSU D | 79 | 10 |
| Kathryn Tran | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 79 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 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 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | MIT 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 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Washington A | 80 | -5 |
| Elias Ziyadeh | Penn A | Georgetown A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Liberty C | 105 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brown C | 105 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 105 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 105 | -5 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 105 | 10 |
| Neiv Sinha | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 105 | 10 |
| Dominik Polley | Carleton | St. Thomas | 105 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 105 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 118 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 118 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 118 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Bowdoin 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 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF B | 118 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 118 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 118 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 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 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | William Woods | 118 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Nebraska | 118 | 10 |
| Vikram Rajmohan | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 118 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 118 | 10 |