A city in this modern day country was the home of Juan de Castellanos (“ka-stay-YAH-nohs”) when he wrote his epic Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias. Quemuenchatocha (“came-wen-cha-TOH-cha”) and Tisquesusa (“tees-keh-SOO-sa”) led sides in a civil war in this modern day country whose end was mediated by the iraca Sugamuxi (“soo-ga-MOOK-see”). Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar founded this country’s capital in 1539 with its original conqueror, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (“hee-MEH-neth de kay-SAH-da”). This country’s city of Hunza, or Tunja, was home to its zaque (“ZAH-kay”) rulers. This country’s Banco de la República runs a “Gold Museum” in its capital, which includes works in tumbaga alloy by the Quimbaya (“keem-BAH-ya”) and a tunjo (“TOON-ho”) golden raft found in Pasca. In this country’s Lake Guatavita, the zipa would cover himself in gold in a ritual that likely inspired the El Dorado myth. For 10 points, name this country whose capital is named for the Muisca capital of Bacatá ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 117.67 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 147.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 25% | 121.10 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 110.25 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 135.38 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 134.57 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 92.80 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 148.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 131.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 135.75 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 132.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 109.13 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 25% | 139.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Imperial C | 25 | -5 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Johns Hopkins A | 45 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | UBC A | 46 | 10 |
| Owen Rojas | Duke | North Carolina A | 55 | -5 |
| Matthew Stasiw | Toronto C | Simon Fraser | 61 | -5 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern D | Chicago D | 61 | -5 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McGill B | 64 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto B | 66 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale | MIT | 66 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Harvard B | 66 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | NYU B | 66 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Bristol | 68 | -5 |
| David Vellojin | Western A | Western B | 73 | -5 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame A | Northwestern C | 73 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCSD B | 77 | -5 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | Cornell B | 77 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Rutgers B | 78 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech D | 79 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 92 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Ohio State C | 92 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Chicago B | 92 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Southern Connecticut State | 92 | 10 |
| Jack Feinberg | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 92 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Swarthmore | 92 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 94 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 100 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | CWRU B | 101 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland A | 104 | -5 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | UCL | 106 | 10 |
| Nikolas Polsinelli | Chicago A | Chicago E | 107 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Central Florida A | 109 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland C | 109 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's | McMaster A | 112 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Stanford B | 114 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Purdue B | 114 | 10 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 114 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 114 | -5 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 114 | 10 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | LSE | 114 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto G | 116 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | WashU B | 116 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Bruin | 116 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 121 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | Liberty B | 121 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Louisville B | 123 | -5 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Central Florida C | 124 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Dartmouth B | 124 | -5 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Vassar | 126 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | James Madison A | 127 | -5 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Catholic | 129 | -5 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State | UCLA B | 131 | -5 |
| Mari Montoya | Waterloo B | McGill A | 131 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Michigan C | 131 | -5 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 131 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Oxford B | 131 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | RIT | 139 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 143 | -5 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Missouri B | 144 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UC Irvine | 145 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | North Carolina B | Liberty A | 145 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Indiana B | 145 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 147 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Notre Dame B | 147 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | City St. George's | 147 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | Arizona State | 148 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | UC Santa Barbara | 148 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCSD A | 148 | 0 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | Brock | 148 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Carleton University | 148 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Toronto E | 148 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto F | 148 | 0 |
| Cameron Liu | Toronto F | McMaster B | 148 | 0 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Western A | 148 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto D | 148 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Toronto C | 148 | 10 |
| Tobias Zajac | Michigan State | Michigan B | 148 | 0 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Michigan State | 148 | 0 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU A | 148 | 10 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina B | James Madison B | 148 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | VCU | 148 | 10 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | NC State B | 148 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | South Carolina B | 148 | 0 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | Virginia | 148 | 0 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Duke | 148 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Notre Dame A | 148 | 10 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Northwestern D | 148 | 0 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago E | Chicago A | 148 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Indiana C | 148 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Brown | 148 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Carleton College | 148 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Georgia Tech A | 148 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Minnesota A | 148 | 0 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Washington B | 148 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | Texas A | 148 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Tennessee A | 148 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Mississipi State | 148 | 10 |
| Riley Bruce | Tennessee B | Sewanee | 148 | 10 |
| Bonham Buchannon | Louisville A | Vanderbilt B | 148 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Alabama A | 148 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Oxford A | 148 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol | Edinburgh B | 148 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | John Jay | 148 | 0 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic | Maryland B | 148 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | NYU A | 148 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | NYU C | 148 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers A | 148 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 148 | 0 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 148 | 0 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Cornell A | 148 | 0 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Cornell C | 148 | 0 |
| Derek Li | Cornell C | Rochester | 148 | 0 |