These animals are associated with vampiric beings that are born with two hearts, two souls, and two sets of teeth. In one tale, this animal saves Genghis Khan’s life by distracting his pursuers with its presence as he hides in a thicket. A princess of Lesbos named Nyctimene is transfigured into this animal after she is assaulted by her father. After he informed the world of the pomegranate seed’s consumption, Persephone used the Phlegethon’s waters to transform Ascalaphus into one of these animals. The striga and strix are associated with these animals, whose feathers adorn the headdress of Mictlantecuhtli (“MEEKT-lahn-TEH-quit-lee”). The flight of this animal over Themistocles’s navy heralded the Athenian victory at Salamis and the favor of a certain “grey-eyed” goddess. For 10 points, what nocturnal birds are symbols of Athena? ■END■
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 116.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 110.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 56% | 126.22 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 98.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.67 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 120.38 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 98.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 88.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diego Almaraz | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 45 | -5 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Harvard A | 47 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown | NYU B | 47 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Louisville B | 56 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | UBC B | 59 | -5 |
| Neal Sengupta | North Carolina C | North Carolina A | 59 | -5 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Dartmouth B | 69 | -5 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Brandeis B | 69 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan A | 70 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Ohio State C | 70 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA A | UCSD A | 70 | -5 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech B | WashU A | 70 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | Minnesota A | 72 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Columbia A | 76 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Toronto B | 77 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Brock | 77 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Catholic | 77 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Warwick B | 80 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 81 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin B | 81 | -5 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto D | Western B | 82 | -5 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Edinburgh A | Warwick A | 82 | -5 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph | McGill A | 86 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Columbia B | 86 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | John Jay | 88 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Washington B | 89 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto G | Toronto C | 91 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | CWRU A | 91 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 91 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's | Ottawa | 91 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Yale | 91 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 91 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Oxford C | 91 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA B | UCSD B | 94 | -5 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Waterloo A | 96 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU B | Vanderbilt B | 97 | -5 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD C | 100 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UC Irvine | 104 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison A | South Carolina A | 104 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | South Carolina B | 108 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | McGill B | 112 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 115 | -5 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | Liberty A | 117 | -5 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western A | McMaster B | 118 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Southern Connecticut State | 120 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 120 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Sewanee | 120 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins B | 120 | 10 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | Maryland B | 120 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Liberty C | 120 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Waterloo B | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Iowa State | 123 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Tennessee B | 123 | 10 |
| Owen Rojas | Duke | Liberty B | 123 | 10 |
| Becca Wu | James Madison B | NC State A | 123 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | VCU | 123 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto F | 125 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Mississipi State | 126 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina B | 128 | 10 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina B | William and Mary | 128 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | James Madison A | 129 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Edinburgh A | 130 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Bowdoin A | 130 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | Toronto E | 131 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Toronto D | 131 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCLA A | 131 | 10 |
| Ellie Wang | Brock | Western C | 131 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western A | 131 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Bruin | 131 | 10 |
| Isabel Dent | Sewanee | Louisville A | 131 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 131 | 10 |
| Katie Farthing | Vanderbilt B | WashU B | 131 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | NYU C | 131 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA B | 131 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Wake Forest | 131 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | North Carolina C | 131 | 10 |
| Nate Kodama | Bowdoin B | MIT | 131 | 10 |