In the Mabinogion (“mah-bih-NOG-yon”), one of these beings challenges Culhwch (“KILL-hookh”) to retrieve a comb and scissors from the boar Twrch Trwyth (“toork truh-ith”) in order to let him marry his daughter Olwen. In the Kalevala, Väinämöinen (“VYE-na-moy-nen”) obtains the last three words of a spell from the stomach of one of these beings, Antero Vipunen. The severed head of one of these beings is buried facing France to protect Britain from invasion. Finn MacCool creates a “causeway” named after these beings. In Norse myth, Ymir (“EE-meer”) is the first of the “frost” variety of these beings who live in Jotunheim (“YO-tun-hime”). For 10 points, name these large beings, one of which yells “fee, fi, fo, fum” in Jack and the Beanstalk. ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 74.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.57 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.75 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 78.78 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 84.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 78.64 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 76.22 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 79.50 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 76.89 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 83.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 72.92 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.63 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.67 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 42% | 84.25 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.50 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 75.29 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 81.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth B | Tufts C | 28 | 10 |
| Eoghan Herriot | Durham D | Edinburgh A | 31 | -5 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State A | CWRU D | 32 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph A | McMaster C | 43 | -5 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland A | Stony Brook | 48 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | WashU Grolars | 48 | -5 |
| Evan Roberts | Vanderbilt C | Alabama A | 48 | 10 |
| Tal Bowen | Durham A | Sheffield A | 48 | -5 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Vassar B | 49 | -5 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech F | 49 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell A | 49 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech E | 50 | -5 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 52 | -5 |
| Andrew Wilson | Montevallo | Vanderbilt A | 58 | -5 |
| Jamie Pach | Ottawa D | McGill E | 59 | -5 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill A | Carleton B | 65 | 10 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | NYU A | 65 | -5 |
| Nico Pascual | Michigan State B | Michigan State D | 67 | -5 |
| Anneke Stracks | Macalester | Wisconsin B | 67 | 10 |
| Julian Moody | Tufts A | Boston University B | 67 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa B | Nebraska A | 67 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Louisville C | 69 | -5 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia A | William & Mary B | 69 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | UNC B | Liberty A | 69 | -5 |
| Aiden Shields | Clemson A | Clemson C | 69 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | USC B | 70 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 70 | 10 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Warwick | 70 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF A | Florida State A | 71 | -5 |
| Diego Monge | Claremont C | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NCSU A | Liberty B | 72 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Chicago B | 72 | 10 |
| William Henley | Illinois Champaign | Purdue D | 72 | 10 |
| Ethan Young | Williams A | Boston College A | 72 | 10 |
| Brendan Liaw | British Columbia A | Washington Chinook | 72 | 10 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Central Oklahoma A | 72 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Chipola College | 72 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Sewanne | 72 | -5 |
| Arhith Dharaendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia A | 72 | -5 |
| Mata Cooper | Southampton | Imperial D | 72 | -5 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton C | 72 | -5 |
| Erin Williams | JMU A | NCSU B | 73 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Amherst A | 73 | 10 |
| Stephen Donoghue | Sheffield B | Edinburgh D | 73 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto G | Toronto B | 74 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | Tusculum A | 74 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | Virginia Tech A | 74 | 10 |
| Nathan Sprouse | Virginia Tech B | VCU A | 74 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland B | Lehigh B | 74 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Columbia B | 74 | 10 |
| Ben Stras | Wisconsin C | Wisconsin A | 74 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Brandeis Beethoven | 74 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington Steelhead | 74 | 10 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Cambridge C | 74 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD B | USC A | 75 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | Ottawa C | 75 | 10 |
| Maya Vardag | Waterloo A | Toronto I | 75 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Amherst B | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hughes | Auburn A | Auburn C | 75 | 10 |
| Thaddeus Holmes | Durham C | Edinburgh B | 75 | 10 |
| Benjamin Turner | York | Edinburgh C | 75 | 10 |
| Rory Moloney | Cambridge E | Birmingham | 75 | 10 |
| Gabriel Nell | Cornell B | Cornell D | 75 | 10 |
| Janghyun Lee | Berkeley Little Prince | UCSC | 76 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Stanford A | 76 | 10 |
| Joseph Wang | UCLA E | UCLA A | 76 | 10 |
| Jonathan Koehler | UCLA C | UCSD A | 76 | 10 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | McGill C | 76 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto D | Toronto A | 76 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Waterloo C | 76 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto E | Toronto F | 76 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster A | Brock A | 76 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Queen's A | 76 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida Tech B | 76 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan B | Louisville B | 76 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU B | Michigan C | 76 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU A | Ohio State D | 76 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State A | WVU B | 76 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | UNC B | 76 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | UNC D | Virginia Tech C | 76 | 10 |
| David Ropp | Duke A | JMU B | 76 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn | Rutgers B | 76 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers D | Maryland C | 76 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Princeton | 76 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins | Rowan | 76 | 10 |
| Ben Schindelman | Vassar A | NYU C | 76 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana A | William Woods University A | 76 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois Blue | Rose-Hulman A | 76 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue C | Indiana B | 76 | 10 |
| Francis Dinh | Illinois Canada | Iowa B | 76 | 10 |
| Henry L'Heureux | Minnesota | Michigan Tech | 76 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Harvard | 76 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Brandeis Mozart | 76 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown A | Brandeis Bach | 76 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | Boston University A | Williams C | 76 | 10 |
| Johnny Myers | Williams B | MIT B | 76 | 10 |
| Deeksha Easwar | Washington Sockeye | Washington State | 76 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas | Washington Atlantic | 76 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | Washington Pink | 76 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta A | Washington Coho | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa A | Central Oklahoma B | 76 | 10 |
| Jaxsen Melton | Murray State College A | Kansas State A | 76 | 10 |
| Sam Beshear | Murray State College B | Nebraska B | 76 | 10 |
| Fionn O’Connor | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech D | 76 | 10 |
| Abbie Isabel | Edinburgh A | Durham D | 76 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Cambridge D | 76 | 10 |
| Josh Morris | Bristol | LSE | 76 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Binghamton B | 76 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Rochester | 76 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Illinois Urbana | 77 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington Chum | Boise State | 77 | 10 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Columbia A | 78 | 10 |
| Hansen Jin | Berkeley Skeleton King | Stanford B | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Florida Tech A | 79 | 10 |
| Jack Rabaut | Michigan D | Louisville D | 79 | 10 |
| Owen Gibbs | Boston College B | Dartmouth C | 79 | 10 |
| Mai Höglund | Claremont B | UCLA D | 80 | 10 |
| Alex McClanahan | WVU A | Kentucky | 80 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Iowa A | 80 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Mississippi State A | 80 | 10 |
| Joshua Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan State C | 81 | 10 |
| Luke Hasksins | Kansas State B | Harding | 81 | 10 |
| Thomas Vukovic | Toronto H | Waterloo B | 86 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Southampton | 86 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 87 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville C | Pittsburgh | 87 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU C | 87 | 10 |
| Diana Risley | WashU Grolars | Purdue B | 87 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn B | Emory A | 87 | 10 |
| Pallas Allen | South Florida A | ERAU Daytona A | 90 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason B | Rutgers C | 90 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech A | 92 | 10 |
| Daniel Slater | Tennessee Tech | Vanderbilt B | 92 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | UCF A | 93 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Guelph A | 94 | 10 |
| Gentry Dowdy | Liberty B | NCSU A | 94 | 10 |
| Hanson Hunynh | Boston University B | Tufts A | 94 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia C | Washington Masu | 94 | 10 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Tennessee A | 94 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Binghamton A | 94 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 101 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | NYU B | 101 | 10 |
| Jaie Somaia | Sheffield A | Durham A | 106 | 10 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | Rutgers A | 109 | 10 |
| Britt Bernstein | Georgia A | Georgia Tech B | 111 | 10 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Ottawa D | 115 | 10 |
| Will Jones | Michigan State D | Michigan State B | 115 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Iowa State | 115 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Montevallo | 115 | 10 |