In 1973, Beatle George Harrison helped establish a temple to this figure in Hertfordshire and was referred to as the “archangel” of a sect that primarily worships this figure by its founder. The Palace of Gold was built in New Vrindaban (“vrin-DAH-buhn”) by worshippers of this figure. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (“BUCK-thee-vay-DAHN-tuh SWAH-mee pruh-boo-PAH-duh”) founded a sect that primarily worships this figure called ISKCON (“ISS-kon”). Janmashtami (“juhn-MAHSH-tuh-mee”) celebrates the birth of this figure in a prison cell, and the raslila dance honors this figure and his consort Radha. This charioteer extols yoga and bhakti (“BUCK-tee”) to a Pandava archer in a section of the Mahabharata (“muh-huh-BAH-ruh-tuh”). For 10 points, what flute-playing avatar of Vishnu advises Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.25 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 43.86 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 43.20 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 68.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 46.83 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 11% | 61.57 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 17% | 60.44 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 72.22 |
| North | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 49.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 64.78 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 61.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 99.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 13 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 59.83 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 55.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 50.00 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 47.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christina Popov | Queen's A | Toronto H | 13 | 10 |
| Venkat Das | WVU B | Louisville C | 13 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary A | Virginia Tech B | 13 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | George Mason A | 13 | 10 |
| John Maupin | Chipola College | Georgia Tech A | 13 | 10 |
| Musa Ahmed | Edinburgh C | Sheffield A | 13 | 10 |
| Jacob Cohen | UCLA A | Claremont C | 15 | 10 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa A | McGill A | 15 | 10 |
| Ritwik Sharma | Arizona State A | Washington Steelhead | 16 | 10 |
| Rishi Swaminathan | NYU B | Columbia A | 17 | 10 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt C | Mississippi State A | 18 | 10 |
| Anirudh Terdal | LSE | Cambridge C | 18 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Toronto E | 20 | 10 |
| Samarth Majmudar | Illinois Urbana | William Woods University A | 20 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharaendra | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee Tech | 26 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Cornell B | 27 | 10 |
| Jamie Pach | Ottawa D | McGill B | 28 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Waterloo A | 28 | 10 |
| Faraz Foroughi | NCSU A | Virginia Tech A | 28 | 10 |
| Johnny Myers | Williams B | MIT A | 28 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington State | 28 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 28 | 10 |
| Harry Fines | York | Durham D | 28 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Cambridge A | 28 | 10 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Cambridge E | 28 | 10 |
| Lily Katz | Stony Brook | Johns Hopkins | 30 | -5 |
| David Nickel | Purdue A | Illinois Blue | 30 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville D | Pittsburgh | 31 | 10 |
| Brody Johnson | Louisville B | CWRU D | 31 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU A | Louisville A | 31 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU A | Maryland B | 31 | 10 |
| Aiden Hart | Kentucky | CWRU C | 34 | 10 |
| Stephen Donoghue | Sheffield B | Durham A | 35 | 10 |
| Sage Saperstein | USC B | UC Irvine | 37 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont A | UCSD B | 40 | 10 |
| David Ciardella | Vermont B | Amherst A | 40 | -5 |
| Niyanthi Yamunan | Georgia Tech E | Auburn B | 40 | 10 |
| Andrew Boardman | Cambridge D | Imperial B | 40 | 10 |
| Sam Barrekette | RIT A | Cornell D | 40 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan B | CWRU B | 45 | 10 |
| Ishan Chahande | Ohio State D | WVU A | 45 | 10 |
| Mahathi Veluri | UConn A | Brandeis Bach | 45 | 10 |
| Jas Wang | UCLA F | UCLA E | 47 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | Duke A | 47 | 10 |
| Suhaan Pastakia | Maryland C | Maryland A | 47 | 10 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | Ottawa C | 48 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan C | Michigan State B | 48 | 10 |
| Anila Moparthi | Illinois Orange | Illinois Champaign | 48 | -5 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Dartmouth A | 48 | -5 |
| Kenner Bailey | Boston University A | Vermont A | 48 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 49 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Clemson A | 49 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UCLA B | 50 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State A | Michigan A | 50 | 10 |
| Deeksha Easwar | Washington Sockeye | British Columbia B | 50 | 10 |
| Nitinkisor Rajesh Kumar | Edinburgh B | Edinburgh A | 50 | 10 |
| Naayaz Hashim | Oxford | Imperial C | 50 | -5 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley Archer Queen | 55 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA D | UCSD A | 58 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | JMU A | 58 | 10 |
| Vishnu Sharma | Texas | Washington Pink | 58 | 10 |
| Colette Giezentanner | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue B | 59 | 10 |
| Ishan Pachauri | UCLA C | Claremont B | 60 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Toronto D | 60 | 10 |
| Ezra Zareba | UNC B | UNC D | 60 | 10 |
| Ben Schindelman | Vassar A | Rutgers D | 60 | 10 |
| Francis Dinh | Illinois Canada | Chicago B | 60 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana A | Purdue C | 60 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth B | Brandeis Mozart | 60 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | Boston University B | Tufts C | 60 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | Boston College A | Brown B | 60 | 10 |
| Kaushik Jayaprabha | Dartmouth C | Brandeis Beethoven | 61 | 10 |
| Anya Srinivasan | Washington Atlantic | Boise State | 61 | 10 |
| Logan Van Pelt | Washington Coho | Alberta B | 61 | 10 |
| Sri Lnu | Clemson B | Georgia Tech D | 64 | 10 |
| Aryan Malhotra | Rutgers C | Columbia B | 67 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Michigan D | 71 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers B | Princeton | 71 | -5 |
| Sruti Banerjee | Washington Chinook | Washington Masu | 71 | 10 |
| Aditi Nebhwani | Bristol | Imperial D | 73 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill E | Carleton B | 75 | 10 |
| Tobias Zajac | Michigan State C | Michigan State D | 77 | 10 |
| Shivam Saxena | Georgia Tech F | Georgia A | 81 | 10 |
| Saswat Sasha Tripathi | Chicago A | WashU Grolars | 82 | 10 |
| Anthony Cruz Martinez | Nebraska C | Nebraska B | 82 | -5 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn A | Emory A | 82 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Penn | 83 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph A | Waterloo C | 85 | -5 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 86 | 10 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Nebraska A | 86 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chum | 91 | 10 |
| Steven Pan | Georgia Tech C | South Carolina A | 91 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown A | Tufts A | 92 | -5 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State College A | Tulsa A | 95 | -5 |
| Richy Sun | Vanderbilt B | Auburn C | 95 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Waterloo B | 98 | 10 |
| Micah Williams | VCU A | UNC C | 98 | -5 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa A | Rose-Hulman A | 98 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge B | Southampton | 98 | -5 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto B | Toronto A | 106 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Brock A | 106 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | UCF A | 106 | 10 |
| Yvonne Pan | Amherst B | Boston College B | 108 | 10 |
| Gentry Dowdy | Liberty B | Tusculum A | 112 | 10 |
| William Walters | Murray State College B | Central Oklahoma A | 112 | 10 |
| Aris Anton | Waterloo C | Guelph A | 113 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto I | Toronto F | 113 | 0 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Toronto I | 113 | 0 |
| Becca Wu | JMU B | NCSU B | 113 | 0 |
| Joseph Cole | UNC A | Virginia A | 113 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins | Stony Brook | 113 | 0 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers B | 113 | 0 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 113 | 10 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | Rowan | 113 | 0 |
| John Shelly | Rowan | NYU C | 113 | 0 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Vassar B | 113 | 10 |
| David Black | Illinois Champaign | Illinois Orange | 113 | 10 |
| Austin Tran | Rose-Hulman A | Iowa A | 113 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Purdue D | 113 | 10 |
| Kyle Hart | MIT B | Harvard | 113 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Williams A | 113 | 0 |
| Julian Moody | Tufts A | Brown A | 113 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 113 | 10 |
| Jarrod Curl | Tulsa A | Murray State College A | 113 | 0 |
| Robert Szot | Nebraska B | Nebraska C | 113 | 0 |
| Richard D’Angelo | Tennessee B | Clemson C | 113 | 0 |
| Andrew Wilson | Montevallo | Sewanne | 113 | 10 |
| Abby Tipton | Auburn C | Vanderbilt B | 113 | 10 |
| Lucy Izabella | Edinburgh D | Durham B | 113 | 10 |
| Will Barton | Imperial C | Oxford | 113 | 0 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Cambridge B | 113 | 0 |
| David Latimer | Imperial A | Birmingham | 113 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 113 | 0 |
| Claire Chambers | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 113 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Binghamton B | 113 | 10 |