In quinoa, class-1 HKT proteins load this element into bladder cells. Variations in hydrogen concentration in the brain cause acid-sensing pH sensor proteins to mainly transport this element. Paralytic shellfish poisoning occurs when alkaloids like saxitoxin block the transport of this element. A symporter of glucose and this element called SGLT2 is found in proximal tubules. Subunits of proteins that conduct this element contain six transmembrane passes and are voltage-gated. An ion of this element enters neurons during action potential firing. Blockers for this element’s channels can be used to treat arrhythmia. Hydrolysis of ATP pumps three atoms of this element out of cells against potassium. For 10 points, name this element found alongside chloride in table salt. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 96.50 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 94.67 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 58% | 95.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 98.57 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 91.43 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 89.80 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 64% | 96.64 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 67.40 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 101.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 42% | 88.42 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 86.75 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Toronto B | 22 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF A | 38 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 41 | -5 |
| Stanley Lam | McMaster B | Toronto K | 41 | -5 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland C | NYU A | 41 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 41 | -5 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 41 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 41 | 10 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | ESF | 41 | -5 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 43 | -5 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Rose State | 43 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto G | 45 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 45 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 47 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 48 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | UCSC | 48 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 48 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Maryland A | 48 | -5 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Macalester A | 48 | 10 |
| Pace Klein | CWRU A | Pitt A | 49 | 10 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Columbia B | 49 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers B | 49 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Alberta | 49 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 50 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 50 | -5 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | VCU A | 50 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 50 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | MIT A | 50 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 50 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC B | 53 | 10 |
| Yoyo Liu | British Columbia A | Simon Fraser | 53 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU C | 55 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Williams | 55 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Ohio | 58 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | North Carolina A | 62 | -5 |
| Aditya Koushik | Stanford C | Stanford A | 69 | -5 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 69 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri B | 69 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 69 | 10 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 70 | -5 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 73 | -5 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA A | 74 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Iowa State | 74 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 76 | 10 |
| Nolan Travers | Tulsa | UTD A | 76 | -5 |
| Connor Farquhar | Amherst A | Dartmouth | 77 | 10 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | FSU | 78 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU A | 78 | -5 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | Melbourne A | 78 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 78 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 78 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | Washington B | 78 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Scripps | 79 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 79 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | MSU A | OSU D | 79 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 79 | -5 |
| Kathryn Tran | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 79 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | Washington A | 79 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 79 | -5 |
| Thomas Wu | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 80 | 10 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | Toronto C | 80 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | UF D | 80 | -5 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | CWRU C | 80 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | OSU A | 80 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Roanoke | 80 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Notre Dame E | 80 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Maryland D | 80 | -5 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | George Washington A | 80 | -5 |
| Elias Ziyadeh | Penn A | Georgetown A | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 80 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 80 | -5 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | MIT B | 80 | -5 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 80 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Rochester | 80 | -5 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 81 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Queen's A | 81 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | McGill D | 81 | -5 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton A | 81 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Toronto D | 86 | -5 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU D | 87 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | George Washington B | 90 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Lloyd George | 92 | -5 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Toronto Metropolitan | 100 | -5 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brown B | 103 | 10 |
| Ann Sha | UMBC A | George Mason A | 104 | -5 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph A | Carleton | 105 | -5 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 105 | -5 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Clemson B | 105 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty A | 105 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Liberty C | 105 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Penn B | 105 | 10 |
| Neiv Sinha | Princeton A | Lehigh A | 105 | 10 |
| Dominik Polley | Carleton | St. Thomas | 105 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 105 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brown C | 105 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 105 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF E | 106 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 107 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 108 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 108 | 10 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 108 | 10 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | Texas A | 109 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA C | 111 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 111 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 113 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State | Tennessee B | 113 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | USF | 114 | 10 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 116 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | NYU B | 117 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSB | 118 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Guelph B | 118 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McGill A | 118 | 10 |
| Jeremy Kim | Toronto K | McMaster B | 118 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Guelph A | 118 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | McMaster C | 118 | 10 |
| Simon Choist | Queen's B | Waterloo | 118 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Ottawa | 118 | 0 |
| June Miller | UF B | UCF B | 118 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 118 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | Melbourne B | 118 | 10 |
| Vincent Chen | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 118 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | CWRU B | 118 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | Pitt C | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 118 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 118 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins A | 118 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 118 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | William Woods | 118 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 118 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Nebraska | 118 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
| Vikram Rajmohan | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 118 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 118 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 118 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | UCO | 118 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 118 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 118 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 118 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Syracuse | 118 | 10 |