This man sent a carefully worded letter apologizing for his soldiers’ haste in proclaiming him ruler while he governed Syria. This ruler supposedly dictated a poem addressed to a “little drifter” from his deathbed. This ruler commissioned a poem from Pancrates about his hunt of the Marousian lion, which was also depicted on the Arch of Constantine. Rebels against this ruler took shelter in caves after his forces captured Betar. This ruler rebuilt a destroyed city as Aelia Capitolina, which may have helped spark the Bar Kokhba revolt. This ruler’s villa at Tivoli held a statue of his deified lover Antinous. This emperor ordered the construction of a 73-mile fortification to defend against attacks by the Picts. For 10 points, name this successor of Trajan, a Roman emperor who built a namesake wall in Britannia. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 82.75 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 135.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 120.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 106.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 44% | 114.67 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 105.38 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 87.40 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 105.75 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 117.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 110.29 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 101.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 63% | 112.13 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 108.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Nyang | LSE | UCL | 33 | -5 |
| James McCurley | Harvard A | Brown | 51 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Maryland C | 55 | -5 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 62 | -5 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | Arizona State | 69 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Bristol | 72 | -5 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Manchester | 75 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 75 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 77 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 77 | 10 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | Central Florida A | 78 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Kentucky | 78 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 78 | 10 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | Imperial A | 78 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 78 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 78 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UC Santa Barbara | 78 | -5 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 78 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Dartmouth A | 78 | -5 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | RIT | 78 | -5 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | CWRU B | 79 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Maryland B | 79 | -5 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Imperial C | 80 | 10 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UCSD C | 81 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Berkeley B | 82 | 10 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | Virginia Tech A | 83 | -5 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame A | 83 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | NYU C | 84 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Vassar | 84 | -5 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Dartmouth B | 86 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont | Minnesota A | 87 | -5 |
| Meredie Cohen | William and Mary | James Madison B | 87 | -5 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Indiana B | 87 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Rutgers B | 87 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia C | Swarthmore | 87 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Cornell C | 87 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Notre Dame B | 88 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Missouri B | 91 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana C | 91 | 10 |
| Randy Guo | Texas B | Texas A | 92 | -5 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Johns Hopkins B | 92 | -5 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech C | 95 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 97 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | CWRU A | 99 | 10 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham | Edinburgh B | 99 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois C | 99 | -5 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | UBC B | 100 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Bowdoin B | 100 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Southern Connecticut State | 100 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Iowa State | 100 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | Alabama A | 100 | -5 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 100 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Birmingham | 100 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | City St. George's | 100 | -5 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | James Madison A | 100 | -5 |
| William Cowperthwait | NC State B | Liberty C | 100 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | LSE | 100 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Oxford C | 100 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago E | 100 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 100 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Bowdoin A | 100 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 100 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Wake Forest | 101 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 103 | 10 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD A | 103 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 103 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 108 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pittsburgh | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Central Florida C | 109 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Cambridge B | 109 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Imperial B | 109 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 113 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | NC State A | 113 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | North Carolina C | 113 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | Duke | 113 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Southampton B | 115 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 116 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech D | Mississipi State | 116 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 116 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Indiana A | 116 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 116 | 10 |
| Alexander Nicholas | Central Florida A | Florida A | 119 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic | 119 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 119 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 122 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | NYU B | 127 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State C | Michigan B | 131 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT | Cornell A | 131 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Vanderbilt B | 132 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Durham | 133 | 10 |
| Adrian Zhou | NYU C | John Jay | 133 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | Columbia A | 134 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | Brock | 135 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Florida B | 135 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Claremont | 135 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 135 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cambridge C | 135 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | William and Mary | 135 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | Liberty A | 135 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Columbia B | 135 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Purdue A | 135 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue B | 135 | 10 |