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 |
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| 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 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA A | UCSD A | 70 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan A | 70 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Ohio State C | 70 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Brock | 77 | -5 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Toronto B | 77 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Catholic | 77 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Warwick B | 80 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin B | 81 | -5 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins A | 81 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's | Ottawa | 91 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto G | Toronto C | 91 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 91 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | CWRU A | 91 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Yale | 91 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Oxford C | 91 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Imperial B | 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 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Liberty C | 120 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | Maryland B | 120 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins B | 120 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Waterloo B | 122 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | VCU | 123 | 10 |
| Owen Rojas | Duke | Liberty B | 123 | 10 |
| Becca Wu | James Madison B | NC State A | 123 | 10 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Iowa State | 123 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Tennessee B | 123 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto F | 125 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Mississipi State | 126 | 10 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina B | William and Mary | 128 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina B | 128 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | James Madison A | 129 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Bowdoin A | 130 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Edinburgh A | 130 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCLA A | 131 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA B | 131 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC B | Toronto E | 131 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western A | 131 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Toronto D | 131 | 10 |
| Ellie Wang | Brock | Western C | 131 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | North Carolina C | 131 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Wake Forest | 131 | 10 |
| Nate Kodama | Bowdoin B | MIT | 131 | 10 |
| Katie Farthing | Vanderbilt B | WashU B | 131 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 131 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Bruin | 131 | 10 |
| Isabel Dent | Sewanee | Louisville A | 131 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | NYU C | 131 | 10 |