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 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 55 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto C | 55 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Edinburgh A | 55 | 10 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | Penn B | 59 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Edinburgh B | 60 | 10 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto K | McGill B | 64 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | UTD B | 64 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Oxford A | 64 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | SIUE | 64 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | BC B | 64 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Williams | 76 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | McGill D | 76 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Georgetown B | 76 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Purdue B | 76 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | BU | 76 | -5 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Penn A | 77 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto D | 77 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 78 | -5 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Purdue 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 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | UCO | 89 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | UTD A | 89 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 89 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Michigan D | 89 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Michigan C | 89 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Cambridge C | 89 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Oxford B | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Romano | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown C | 89 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas A | 94 | -5 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Louisville A | 94 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Mississippi State A | 95 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Tufts B | 95 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Imperial B | 95 | 10 |
| Ian Costigan | Sheffield C | Southampton A | 97 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Southampton B | 97 | 10 |
| Alex Brown | UIC | Indiana A | 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 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | George Washington B | 102 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | BC A | 102 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Mason B | 102 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU B | 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 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland A | 116 | 10 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Sewanee A | 116 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | UMBC A | 116 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Chicago A | 116 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 116 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | MIT B | 116 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | Catholic University | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Notre Dame E | 133 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin B | 133 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Brandeis Clemenceau | 133 | 10 |