The gopis displayed the three transcendental virtues during this holiday, according to a chapter of the Garga Samhita that describes girls from Vraja celebrating it with sprinklers. According to a legend celebrated on this holiday, a god loses his shame over his dark skin when his mother asks him to change the color of his beloved’s face. In another legend celebrated during this holiday, a powerful boon is overcome by a creature who uses its claws to slay an asura king at dusk on his lap at the palace’s threshold. In that legend celebrated on this holiday, an evil aunt burns to death on a pyre after her flame-retardant cloak vanishes. The defeat of King Hiranyakashipu by the half-lion avatar of Vishnu, Narasimha, is celebrated on this holiday. For 10 points, Prahlada’s victory is celebrated during what Hindu festival of colors? ■END■
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 128.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 45% | 128.82 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.80 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 121.40 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 124.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 128.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Edinburgh B | 46 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Ottawa | 50 | -5 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | Toronto B | 52 | -5 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Bristol | 58 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 68 | -5 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Waterloo B | 75 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Brock | 75 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan C | 78 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | Toronto F | 89 | -5 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 89 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 89 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Columbia C | 89 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | MIT | 89 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 92 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | John Jay | 93 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA B | 96 | -5 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brandeis B | 96 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 105 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Johns Hopkins B | 115 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | NYU A | 115 | -5 |
| Sriram Susarla | UBC B | McMaster B | 119 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State | UCSD C | 127 | 10 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Brandeis A | 138 | -5 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's | Toronto G | 139 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Cambridge B | 140 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | City St. George's | 140 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | NYU B | 140 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Oxford B | 140 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 140 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Dartmouth B | 140 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCLA A | 141 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UCSD A | 141 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill A | Toronto D | 141 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto F | McGill B | 141 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | Toronto C | 141 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 141 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol | Imperial C | 141 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Vassar | 141 | 0 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Catholic | 141 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Columbia A | 141 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland C | 141 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | UBC B | 141 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | Western A | 141 | 10 |
| Jack Feinberg | Brandeis A | Bowdoin A | 141 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | LSE | 141 | 10 |
| Brandon Weiss | Columbia C | NYU C | 141 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Swarthmore | 141 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Western B | 141 | 10 |
| Charlotte Wilcox | Western C | Guelph | 141 | 0 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | Western C | 141 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | CWRU A | 141 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 141 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT | Harvard A | 141 | 10 |