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 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 55 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 55 | 10 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | Penn B | 59 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 60 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | SIUE | 64 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | BC B | 64 | -5 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto K | McGill B | 64 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | UTD B | 64 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Oxford A | 64 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown B | 65 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Dartmouth | 69 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 69 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Carleton | 69 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Johns Hopkins C | 71 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Notre Dame D | 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 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | BU | 76 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 76 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Purdue B | 76 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Williams | 76 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | McGill D | 76 | -5 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Penn A | 77 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto D | 77 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Ben Romano | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown C | 89 | -5 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 89 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 89 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 89 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | UCO | 89 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | UTD A | 89 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 89 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 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 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | George Washington A | 92 | -5 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Sheffield B | 92 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | LSE B | 92 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 101 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Alabama 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 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 116 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | MIT B | 116 | 0 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 116 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 116 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Chicago A | 116 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Sewanee 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 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin B | 133 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 133 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Queen's A | 133 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | Catholic University | 133 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 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 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Ottawa | 133 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Western Ontario | 133 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern A | 133 | 10 |