The performance of this action in pursuit of the Greek principle of kleos is analyzed in a Melissa Mueller essay that discusses a gift given to Telemachus. For telling stories and performing this action instead of attending the festival of Bacchus, the Minyades (“mih-NYE-uh-dees”) are transformed into bats. Helen is performing this action when she is visited by Iris in her first appearance in the Iliad. After going mute, Philomela performs this action to reveal that King Tereus assaulted her. After enraging a goddess with her perfect performance of this activity in one story, a shepherd’s daughter hangs herself. In the Odyssey, Penelope repeatedly undoes the previous night’s performance of this action to keep her suitors at bay. For 10 points, Athena turns Arachne into a spider after a contest in what domestic activity? ■END■
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 23% | 101.54 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 104.20 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 96.60 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 36% | 85.10 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 50% | 109.86 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 96.50 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.79 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James McCurley | Harvard | Brown A | 43 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Alberta B | 46 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Amherst A | 51 | 10 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn A | Bruin A | 52 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto C | 55 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 55 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 55 | -5 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | Penn B | 59 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 60 | 10 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto K | McGill B | 64 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | BC B | 64 | -5 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | SIUE | 64 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Oxford A | 64 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | UTD B | 64 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown B | 65 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Carleton | 69 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Dartmouth | 69 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 69 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 71 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 71 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Indiana B | 73 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Orlando | 74 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 75 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Purdue B | 76 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | BU | 76 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 76 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Williams | 76 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | McGill D | 76 | -5 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto D | 77 | -5 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Penn A | 77 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 78 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 78 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | NYU B | 80 | -5 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Birmingham A | 84 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Louisville B | 86 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland D | 88 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 89 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Romano | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown C | 89 | -5 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 89 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 89 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | UCO | 89 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | UTD A | 89 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 89 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Queen's B | 91 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto E | 91 | -5 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Toronto I | 92 | 10 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Sheffield B | 92 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | LSE B | 92 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Washington A | 92 | -5 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Huntsville A | 93 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Louisville A | 94 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas A | 94 | -5 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Tufts B | 95 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Mississippi State A | 95 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Imperial B | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Brown | UIC | Indiana A | 97 | 10 |
| Ian Costigan | Sheffield C | Southampton A | 97 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 97 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Georgetown A | 99 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Alabama B | 101 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 101 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Mason B | 102 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU B | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | George Washington B | 102 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC A | 102 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Warwick B | 105 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Rose State | 106 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto A | 107 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | McGill A | 109 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Notre Dame A | 114 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | MIT B | 116 | 0 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 116 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Chicago A | 116 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 116 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 116 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 116 | 10 |
| Olivia Parisotto | Toronto G | Toronto F | 119 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster C | 121 | -5 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo | Guelph B | 126 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Imperial C | 127 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Arizona State B | 128 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Notre Dame B | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Queen's A | 133 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Ottawa | 133 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 133 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin B | 133 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 133 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | Catholic University | 133 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 133 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern A | 133 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | Northwestern C | 133 | 0 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State A | 133 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas B | 133 | 10 |