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 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Purdue A | 106 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 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 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCLA B | 129 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD A | Arizona State | 129 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Vassar | 129 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 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 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 133 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Durham | 133 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | RIT | 133 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 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 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto C | 136 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU A | 136 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Chicago E | 136 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Columbia C | 136 | 10 |
| Peter Smith | Binghamton A | Rochester | 136 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 136 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Imperial C | 136 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Oxford C | 136 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota A | 136 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | WashU B | 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 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 143 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 143 | 10 |
| Florrie the Mononymous | Southampton A | UCL | 143 | -5 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Catholic | 143 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 143 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Western B | 144 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Guelph | 144 | 10 |
| Riley Bruce | Tennessee B | Vanderbilt B | 144 | 10 |
| Ashlee Bacconi | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD B | 146 | -5 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 146 | 10 |
| Ben Tibbles | Sewanee | Mississipi State | 146 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 150 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 150 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 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 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Cambridge B | 151 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 151 | 0 |
| Max Polsky | Western B | Toronto F | 151 | 0 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | UBC A | 151 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cardiff | 151 | 0 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | City St. George's | 151 | 0 |
| Eva West | UCL | Southampton A | 151 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UC Santa Barbara | 151 | 10 |
| Alice Ton Nu | Washington B | Claremont | 151 | 0 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Georgia Tech A | 151 | 10 |
| Veer Vanmali | Mississipi State | Sewanee | 151 | 10 |