When challenged to tame a “Lion Stallion,” this person asked for a whip, hammer, and dagger to hit and kill it until it obeyed. Many believe that this person wrote the introduction of the Great Cloud Sutra and was a reincarnation of the Devi of Pure Radiance that the sutra prophesied. The Vairocana (“vye-ROH-chuh-nuh”) Buddha at the Longmen Caves may represent this person as one of Vairocana’s reincarnations. The Zhang brothers, both lovers and advisors of this ruler, were killed in the coup that deposed this ruler. This person recast the legendary Nine Tripod Cauldrons and moved the capital to Luoyang while creating a symbolic second Zhou Dynasty. This ruler rose from being Gaozong’s regent and a member of Li Shimin’s harem to replacing the Tang dynasty. For 10 points, name this only female emperor of China. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.67 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.90 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 117.40 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 109.13 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.38 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50.60 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.75 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 136.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.71 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 102.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 88.29 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
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| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Simon Fraser | 13 | 10 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | Penn State | 18 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Waterloo A | 23 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Bowdoin A | 25 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | Yale | 35 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Bowdoin B | 36 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Cardiff | 36 | 10 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | North Carolina B | 43 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech B | 45 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | UBC A | 48 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Catholic | 50 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | Virginia Tech A | 51 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Swarthmore | 52 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Toronto E | 52 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT | Dartmouth A | 62 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Texas A | 66 | -5 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 76 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhao | Maryland C | Vassar | 76 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 78 | 10 |
| Alexander Nicholas | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 85 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago A | 85 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Manchester | 86 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Chicago C | 90 | 10 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Central Florida B | 91 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth B | Brandeis B | 95 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 99 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | CWRU B | 99 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Warwick B | 99 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Birmingham | 101 | -5 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Virginia | 102 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 104 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Georgia Tech A | 104 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | NYU A | 105 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Tennessee A | 106 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | Toronto B | 106 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto D | 106 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Michigan B | 108 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | WashU A | 108 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster A | McGill B | 111 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 111 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Florida C | 112 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 112 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Pittsburgh | 113 | 10 |
| Mitchell Menzies | Western C | Toronto F | 113 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Chicago B | 116 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | Washington B | 116 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago E | 119 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Indiana B | 119 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont | Carleton College | 120 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill A | McMaster B | 121 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Michigan State | 122 | -5 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Missouri B | 123 | 10 |
| Florrie the Mononymous | Southampton A | Oxford C | 124 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell C | 125 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 126 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | South Carolina B | 128 | -5 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State C | Michigan C | 132 | 10 |
| James Carrick-Lawson | Southampton B | Montpellier | 132 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | VCU | 133 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Indiana C | 133 | 10 |
| Molly Oakley | Binghamton B | Rochester | 133 | 10 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Purdue A | 133 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Louisville A | 133 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | John Jay | 133 | 10 |
| Maddie Baldwin | Michigan State | Michigan A | 135 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Edinburgh A | 135 | 10 |
| Aditya Sharma | Duke | North Carolina C | 136 | 0 |
| Samanyu Dixit | North Carolina C | Duke | 136 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | NC State A | 136 | 0 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | NC State B | 136 | 10 |
| Luke Williams | James Madison A | Wake Forest | 136 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | William and Mary | 136 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell B | Binghamton A | 136 | 0 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell B | 136 | 0 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 136 | 0 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 136 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 136 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | WashU B | 136 | 10 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Alabama B | 136 | 10 |
| Mari Montoya | Waterloo B | Western A | 136 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Rutgers B | 136 | 0 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Johns Hopkins B | 136 | 0 |