Coins from a kingdom on this body of water were found on Marchinbar island. An “accidental crusade” targeted a kingdom on the coast of this body of water later invaded by Butua. A ruler of another state on this body of water built the Husuni Kubwa and added a coral dome to a Great Mosque in its capital. That state’s “chronicle” describes its founding by the son of a ruler of Shiraz. Gold mined from the interior highlands were brought to this body of water at the port city of Sofala, which paid tribute to the Mutapa Empire while controlled by the Kilwa Sultanate. The Portuguese stronghold at Fort Jesus was besieged by Omani forces near Mombasa on this body of water. For 10 points, the Swahili coast in East Africa formed the western boundary of what ocean? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 125.50 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 117.33 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 58% | 114.30 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 115.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 43% | 124.43 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 109.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 118.70 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 99.40 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 98.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 99.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 121.40 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 138.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 84.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 113.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 97.00 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 108.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 106.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph B | 31 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 34 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Sewanee A | 44 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland D | 45 | 10 |
| Hari Veginati | UIC | Purdue C | 45 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McGill A | 47 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Virginia A | 47 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Arizona State B | 53 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford C | 54 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Ottawa | 54 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Louisville A | 54 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Washington B | 54 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 57 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Macalester B | 57 | -5 |
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | British Columbia D | 57 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason A | 59 | 10 |
| Carter McLean | Princeton A | Vassar A | 65 | -5 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Berkeley F | 71 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 71 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | UMBC A | 71 | -5 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | William Woods | 71 | -5 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Simon Fraser | 71 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | UTD A | 71 | -5 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | Missouri A | 72 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto D | 73 | -5 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | CWRU C | 73 | -5 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 73 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Illinois B | 75 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | Toronto F | 76 | -5 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Johns Hopkins B | 76 | -5 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Queen's B | 77 | -5 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason B | 77 | -5 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 77 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | UCO | 77 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 77 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 79 | -5 |
| Jonathan Li | Penn B | VCU A | 79 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Cambridge A | 82 | -5 |
| Adam Zhang | UCI | UCSB | 84 | -5 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | North Carolina C | 84 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Iowa | 88 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | ERAU A | 89 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto H | 90 | -5 |
| Sri Lnu | Clemson B | South Carolina A | 90 | -5 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina B | Roanoke | 90 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | NYU B | 90 | -5 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Texas B | 90 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin | 91 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana A | Chicago B | 92 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 92 | -5 |
| Truman Hill | Vanderbilt A | Alabama B | 93 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | LSE B | 93 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia A | Rutgers B | 96 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Notre Dame B | 96 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 96 | -5 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | Alberta B | 96 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley D | 97 | -5 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Columbia C | 97 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | ERAU B | 99 | 10 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago D | Purdue B | 100 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UCF A | 101 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCLA C | 103 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Western Ontario | 103 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | Kenyon B | 103 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | MSU A | 103 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | North Carolina A | Tennessee A | 103 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | SIUE | 103 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue A | 103 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Notre Dame C | 103 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Alabama A | 103 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Mississippi State A | 103 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Stanford A | 104 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Georgia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Indiana B | 105 | -5 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Syracuse | 105 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | UAB A | 106 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rowan A | 109 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | Virginia B | 118 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | Toronto E | 119 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | OSU B | CWRU D | 119 | -5 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | WashU B | 119 | 10 |
| Simon Bennett | Macalester A | Minnesota C | 120 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | USC | 121 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | Claremont Pitzer | 121 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | McMaster B | 121 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | Melbourne B | 121 | -5 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Kenyon A | 121 | 10 |
| Miles Spieler | OSU D | MSU B | 121 | -5 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | George Mason C | 121 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | St. Thomas | 121 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Huntsville B | 121 | -5 |
| Alec Csukai | Manchester B | Edinburgh B | 121 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Cornell-DII | 121 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | UCSC | 124 | 10 |
| Ethan Buermann | Huntsville B | Auburn B | 126 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | USF | 128 | 10 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | McMaster C | 130 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | OSU C | 130 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Tennessee B | 130 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Northwestern C | 130 | -5 |
| Harper Royal | Georgia Tech A | Bruin A | 130 | 0 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | Notre Dame E | 135 | 10 |
| Christopher Jenkins | UCF B | UF C | 136 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Tusculum | 136 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley B | 137 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Clemson B | 137 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | Penn B | 137 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Nebraska | 137 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCI | 138 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 138 | 10 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | McMaster A | 138 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Toronto C | 138 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 138 | 10 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Toronto I | 138 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill B | 138 | 0 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Queen's A | 138 | 0 |
| Christina Popov | Queen's B | Toronto G | 138 | 10 |
| Will Massey | Melbourne B | FSU | 138 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | OSU D | 138 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Pitt B | 138 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | OSU B | 138 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | Clemson A | 138 | 0 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Liberty B | 138 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic University | 138 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Maryland B | 138 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Georgetown B | 138 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins C | 138 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Georgetown A | 138 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | Princeton A | 138 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Missouri B | 138 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Chicago C | 138 | 10 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Notre Dame A | 138 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago B | Indiana A | 138 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 138 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Yale B | 138 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | British Columbia C | 138 | 10 |
| Nihal Anand | UTD A | Arizona State A | 138 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Tulsa | 138 | 10 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Ohio | 138 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Northwestern B | 138 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Rose State | 138 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge A | Bristol A | 138 | 10 |
| Jake Scoville | RIT B | Binghamton A | 138 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 138 | 10 |