This text describes how killing a holy hedgehog results in extirpation of the soul for nine generations. This text was originally split into 21 sections called nasks, corresponding to the 21 words of one mantra. A repeated description of a god “who is all death” in one part of this text describes Winter as an “evil creation.” This text’s name is often coupled with its Zend commentaries, with which it is often conflated. The sin of burying corpses is described as “unforgivable” in one part of this text called the Vendidad. One of the only sections of this larger work credited to its central prophet are the Gathas, in which the daēvas are minor evil gods loyal to Angra Mainyu who work against Ahura Mazdā. For 10 points, name this central text of Zoroastrianism. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 123.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 93% | 0% | 14% | 116.38 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 117.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 118.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 116.83 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 107.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 0% | 111.22 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.40 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.33 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 18% | 114.89 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 60% | 93.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 27% | 108.30 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 38% | 119.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 124.50 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% | 116.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Edinburgh A | 33 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | MIT A | 44 | -5 |
| Jas Wang | UCLA A | UCLA C | 50 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Indiana A | 50 | -5 |
| Simon Burstein | Virginia B | Liberty C | 59 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Stanford C | 66 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto C | 66 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge A | LSE B | 66 | 10 |
| Malvin Tsetse | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 67 | 10 |
| Simon Bennett | Macalester A | Carleton | 72 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | McGill D | 72 | -5 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Minnesota A | 73 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | BU | 77 | -5 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 77 | 10 |
| Miles Spieler | OSU D | Kenyon B | 79 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | Amherst B | 79 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 87 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 87 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 87 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McMaster A | 90 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Clemson B | 90 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty A | 90 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 90 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 90 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Purdue A | 90 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | St. Thomas | 90 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 90 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 91 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | George Mason B | 92 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Penn A | 93 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas B | 95 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UF E | 98 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 99 | 10 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 99 | -5 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 100 | -5 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Yale A | 100 | -5 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 102 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 104 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 107 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 107 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCLA D | 107 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | Queen's A | 107 | -5 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 107 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | North Carolina B | 107 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | NYU B | 107 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 109 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 109 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford A | Durham B | 109 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU B | 110 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 110 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 110 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Alberta B | 110 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | OSU C | 111 | 10 |
| Thomas Catuosco | Rutgers B | Swarthmore A | 111 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Brown C | 111 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 111 | -5 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Cambridge D | 111 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Nebraska | 113 | -5 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 115 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Iowa State | 115 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Washington A | 116 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 117 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 119 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Guelph A | 119 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto K | 119 | -5 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 119 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia A | Vassar A | 119 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 119 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 119 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton A | 119 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 119 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto I | 121 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Southampton B | 121 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 123 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UF C | 124 | 10 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington B | 124 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Penn B | 124 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland C | 124 | 10 |
| Blake Johnson | BC A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 124 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | UCF B | 126 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 126 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 127 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | ESF | 127 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | Manchester B | 129 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 130 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill C | 131 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Ottawa | 131 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 132 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Chicago D | 133 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Michigan C | 133 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Yale B | 133 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Iowa | 133 | -5 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 133 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 134 | 10 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | Claremont Scripps | 134 | 0 |
| Anvit Watwani | UCLA C | UCLA A | 134 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSB | 134 | 0 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 134 | 0 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | McMaster B | 134 | 0 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | McMaster C | 134 | 10 |
| Christina Popov | Queen's B | Toronto E | 134 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph A | Toronto D | 134 | 0 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McGill B | 134 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 134 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Waterloo | 134 | 0 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF A | FSU | 134 | 10 |
| Sierra Cerna | ERAU B | UF D | 134 | 0 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 134 | 0 |
| Emmet Ewing | MSU A | CWRU C | 134 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | MSU B | 134 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | Pitt A | 134 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 134 | 0 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Clemson A | 134 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 134 | 0 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | South Carolina A | 134 | 0 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Catholic University | 134 | 0 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | Maryland D | 134 | 0 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins B | 134 | 0 |
| Omer Korkmaz | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason C | 134 | 0 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 134 | 10 |
| Nicholas Ryan | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 134 | 0 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Princeton A | 134 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Lehigh A | 134 | 0 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | WashU D | 134 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Chicago A | 134 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Michigan A | 134 | 0 |
| Marin Burg | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 134 | 0 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 134 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 134 | 10 |
| Andrew Verdesca | Yale A | Tufts A | 134 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 134 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State B | 134 | 0 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Northwestern A | 134 | 0 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | UTD B | 134 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Edinburgh B | 134 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 134 | 10 |
| Zhangir Satzhanov | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 134 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 134 | 0 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 134 | 0 |