In the construction of the mahavedi to house this thing, the round garhapatya (“gahr-huh-PUHT-yuh”) and the square ahavaniya (“ah-huh-vuh-NEE-yuh”) must have the same area, an early form of squaring the circle. A deity of this thing is invoked in the opening line of the Rigveda. The death of the asuri Holika is celebrated by one of these things on the night before Holi. In a wedding ceremony called saptapadi (“SUP-tuh-puh-dee”), the bride and groom go around this thing seven times. During aarti (“AHR-thee”), these things are circled before a murti, and during Diwali, houses are adorned with diyas containing this thing. This thing central to a yajña (“YUHG-nyuh”) is personified by the god Agni. For 10 points, Hindus cremate bodies with what classical element? ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 109.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.43 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 107.20 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.11 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 116.25 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 84.45 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.44 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 83.44 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.56 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 93.13 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.17 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 87.50 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 87.63 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 101.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn | Vassar A | 42 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Rutgers B | 46 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Georgia Tech B | 53 | 10 |
| Anila Moparthi | Illinois Orange | Illinois Urbana | 58 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Toronto E | 60 | 10 |
| Jacob Coyne | Durham C | Durham D | 60 | -5 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 60 | 10 |
| Abhay Ariyapappillil | Ottawa B | McGill A | 62 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | McGill C | 63 | -5 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | Washington Masu | 63 | 10 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley Boss Bandit | Stanford B | 66 | 10 |
| Ishan Pachauri | UCLA C | UC Irvine | 66 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chinook | 66 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Coho | 66 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD B | 68 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont B | Claremont C | 70 | 10 |
| Asish Madarapu | UNC D | William & Mary B | 70 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UCLA E | 71 | 10 |
| Vivian Adolph | UNC B | Duke A | 71 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | Michigan State B | Kentucky | 72 | 10 |
| Pratham Bhanushali | WVU B | CWRU D | 72 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State D | 72 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue A | 72 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD A | Claremont A | 73 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Waterloo A | 73 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan A | 73 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU A | Louisville D | 73 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | NCSU A | 73 | 10 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Michigan Tech | 73 | 10 |
| Natalie Gehring | Murray State College A | Central Oklahoma A | 73 | 10 |
| Lorie Au-Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley Mighty Miner | 74 | 10 |
| Surya Donath | Stanford A | Berkeley Little Prince | 74 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Berkeley Skeleton King | 74 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland A | George Mason B | 74 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Johns Hopkins | 74 | 10 |
| Jeremy Scurlock | Chipola College | Montevallo | 74 | 10 |
| Niyanthi Yamunan | Georgia Tech E | Tennessee B | 74 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCLA F | 75 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State A | Michigan D | 75 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary A | Virginia Tech A | 75 | 10 |
| Suhaan Pastakia | Maryland C | George Mason A | 75 | 10 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Clemson B | 75 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Clemson C | 75 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh A | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Toronto H | 76 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto I | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Louisville A | 76 | -5 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan B | WVU A | 76 | 10 |
| Zoe Brennan | Virginia Tech C | Liberty C | 76 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | UNC A | 76 | 10 |
| Neal Tandon | Columbia B | Columbia A | 76 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers C | 76 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | George Mason C | 76 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois Blue | Indiana A | 76 | 10 |
| Ritwik Sharma | Arizona State A | Boise State | 76 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Mississippi State A | 76 | 10 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee A | 76 | -5 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech D | 76 | 10 |
| Kathryn Knispel | Edinburgh D | Sheffield A | 76 | 10 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE | Cambridge B | 76 | 10 |
| Vishrut Pisupati | Imperial B | Birmingham | 76 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Cambridge C | 76 | -5 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Imperial C | 77 | 10 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State B | CWRU B | 78 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | British Columbia B | 78 | -5 |
| Cas Fidel | Tulsa A | Murray State College B | 78 | 10 |
| Michael Shipman | Cambridge D | Cardiff | 78 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Washington Pink | 80 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 85 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland B | NYU C | 89 | -5 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill B | Ottawa A | 93 | -5 |
| Sam Montgomery | Ottawa C | Carleton B | 93 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Florida Tech B | 93 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | ESF | 94 | -5 |
| Mikkie Smylie | Brock A | Waterloo C | 96 | 10 |
| Abhinav Madamanchi | NYU B | Stony Brook | 96 | 10 |
| Saswat Sasha Tripathi | Chicago A | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn A | Georgia A | 96 | -5 |
| Atticus Teter | Durham A | York | 96 | -5 |
| Leo Godbee | Bristol | Imperial A | 96 | -5 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Southampton | 96 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell A | Cornell B | 96 | -5 |
| Sammy Carstens | Rochester | RIT B | 96 | 10 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | McMaster A | 98 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | British Columbia C | 102 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Michigan State D | 108 | 10 |
| Becca Wu | JMU B | William & Mary C | 108 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods University A | Purdue D | 108 | 10 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Tulsa B | 108 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska A | Rose State | 108 | 10 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Emory A | 108 | 10 |
| Lulu Anderson | Sheffield B | Durham B | 108 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton C | 108 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto D | Guelph A | 111 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto B | McMaster B | 111 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | South Florida A | 111 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Michigan State C | 111 | 10 |
| Nathan Coble | Oklahoma | Kansas State B | 111 | 10 |
| CJ Sershon | Central Oklahoma B | Harding | 111 | 10 |
| Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | Rose-Hulman A | 112 | 10 |
| Vivian Lu | Wisconsin C | Minnesota | 113 | 10 |
| Suyog Vibhuti | Washington Steelhead | British Columbia A | 113 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 114 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF A | 116 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Sewanne | 116 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill E | Carleton A | 118 | 10 |
| Jennifer Zhu | McGill C | Ottawa D | 118 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan | Lehigh A | 118 | 10 |
| David Black | Illinois Champaign | Illinois Canada | 118 | 10 |
| Minh Nguyen | Cornell B | Cornell A | 118 | 10 |
| Chris Chang | USC A | USC B | 119 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa A | McGill B | 119 | 10 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | Ottawa C | 119 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 119 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU Daytona A | Florida Tech A | 119 | 10 |
| Orin Overmiller | Florida Tech B | Florida State A | 119 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Ohio State C | 119 | 10 |
| Carly Hemani | JMU A | Tusculum A | 119 | 10 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | Maryland B | 119 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh B | Vassar B | 119 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Chicago B | 119 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago B | Indiana B | 119 | 0 |
| Roy Yang | WashU Grolars | Iowa B | 119 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Wisconsin B | 119 | 10 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin A | 119 | 10 |
| Owen Gibbs | Boston College B | Southern Connecticut State University A | 119 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia B | Arizona State B | 119 | 10 |
| Alan Zhang | British Columbia C | Alberta B | 119 | 10 |
| Bryce Younger | Boise State | Arizona State A | 119 | 10 |
| Martin Brandenburg | Georgia A | Auburn A | 119 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Auburn C | 119 | 10 |
| Alex Coleridge | Durham B | Sheffield B | 119 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Durham A | 119 | 10 |
| Eoghan Herriot | Durham D | Durham C | 119 | 10 |
| Bethany Howard | Imperial A | Bristol | 119 | 10 |
| Advaith Jagannath | Cambridge C | Imperial D | 119 | 10 |
| Megan Englehart | ESF | Cornell D | 119 | 0 |