A wooden plank retrieved by one of these creatures is adorned with Judas’s future thirty pieces of silver and later transforms the Queen of Sheba’s goat hoof into a human foot as per the Arabic translation of the Kebra Negast. Kublai Khan may have mistaken raffia palm fronds as parts of these creatures, one of which was allegedly mistaken for a mountain by Ibn Battuta. A necromancer tricks Aladdin into requesting that an object belonging to this “liege lady” of the genies be hung from his dome. After his ship is destroyed by this type of creature, a man finds himself beset upon by an old man who wraps his legs around his head and refuses to let go. In one text, merchants roll meat into a “valley of diamonds” before raiding the nests of these creatures. For 10 points, name these enormous birds encountered by Sinbad in the Arabian Nights. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 115.67 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 140.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 136.36 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 142.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 124.75 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.38 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 142.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 126.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 123.13 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 116.82 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.25 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 129.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Warwick A | 39 | -5 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Queen's | 40 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Bristol | 47 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 61 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 66 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial B | 68 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Manchester | 70 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 70 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 77 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech B | 85 | 10 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | Chicago A | 86 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Louisville A | 99 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Edinburgh A | 100 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers A | Columbia B | 101 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 102 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Indiana B | 102 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 106 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Purdue A | 106 | 10 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Ottawa | 107 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech D | 108 | 10 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Florida C | 118 | -5 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore | Maryland A | 118 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell B | 118 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Missouri B | 120 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Waterloo B | 124 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 127 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 129 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCLA B | 129 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD A | Arizona State | 129 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Vassar | 129 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 130 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 131 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Northwestern D | 131 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Toronto B | 133 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 133 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Durham | 133 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 133 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | RIT | 133 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida A | 134 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia A | NYU B | 134 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan State | 135 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 135 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | McGill B | 136 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 136 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | WashU B | 136 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto C | 136 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU A | 136 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Chicago E | 136 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Imperial C | 136 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Oxford C | 136 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Columbia C | 136 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Rochester | 136 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota A | 136 | 10 |
| Mark Cheng | UCSD C | UC Irvine | 137 | -5 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Carleton University | 139 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Carleton College | 139 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont | Washington B | 140 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 143 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 143 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 143 | 10 |
| Florrie the Mononymous | Southampton A | UCL | 143 | -5 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Catholic | 143 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Guelph | 144 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Western B | 144 | -5 |
| Riley Bruce | Tennessee B | Vanderbilt B | 144 | 10 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 146 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee | Mississipi State | 146 | -5 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD B | 146 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 150 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 150 | 10 |
| Max Polsky | Western B | Toronto F | 151 | 0 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | UBC A | 151 | 10 |
| Veer Vanmali | Mississipi State | Sewanee | 151 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cardiff | 151 | 0 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | City St. George's | 151 | 0 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 151 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UC Santa Barbara | 151 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Western A | 151 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida B | 151 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 151 | 10 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Chicago B | 151 | 0 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Indiana C | 151 | 10 |
| Eva West | UCL | Southampton A | 151 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge B | 151 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 151 | 0 |
| Alice Ton Nu | Washington B | Claremont | 151 | 0 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Georgia Tech A | 151 | 10 |