Question
A sculpture named for one of these things is bound by turquoise serpents and represents one of these things with a glyph for “movement.” Four gods representing the cardinal directions created the first of these things after defeating a crocodile with mouths on its knees. The end of one of these things occurred after greedy humans were turned into monkeys and blown away in a hurricane. After one of these things is hit with a stone club, (*) jaguars eat humanity. In one story, Nanahuatzin (“nana-WHA-tzin”) becomes one of these things after Tecuciztecatl (“tec-coo-sis-tec-attle”) is too scared to jump into a bonfire. Human sacrifices were made to Huitzilopochtli (“WEET-see-luh-POACH-tlee”) to prevent this thing from going black. For 10 points, the Aztecs believed they lived under the fifth cycle of what celestial object, which titles a Mexica ■END■
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 86% | 11% | 0% | 107.17 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Alex Crowell | Rockford Auburn A | Norris | 29 | 0 |
Ian Lu | Hunter A | Barrington B | 30 | 0 |
Lynda Ma | Barrington B | Hunter A | 30 | 0 |
Grace Liu | Thomas Jefferson B | Norman | 30 | 0 |
Dwij Bhatt | William Fremd | Detroit Catholic Central C | 30 | 0 |
Lily Thai | New Brighton | Dallas County | 32 | 0 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Detroit Catholic Central B | 32 | 0 |
Clete Reinberger | Cincinnati Hills Christian | Chattahoochee A | 35 | 0 |
Jack Mangrum | Innovation Academy A | Belvidere | 35 | 0 |
Brady Laughlin | West Point | Dunbar | 37 | 20 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Waukee | 41 | 0 |
Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Stevenson A | 48 | 20 |
Aarushi Kanigicherla | Thomas Jefferson C | Innovation Academy B | 51 | 0 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Maggie Walker B | 52 | 0 |
Matthew Liu | Chattahoochee A | Cincinnati Hills Christian | 55 | 0 |
Ulden Gao | Winston Churchill B | Barrington A | 59 | 0 |
Ash Frederickson | Mexico | John Adams B | 59 | 20 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Hinsdale Central | 62 | 0 |
Andy Yu | Winston Churchill A | Elkhorn North | 62 | 0 |
Owen Arneson | Parkway West | Winnebago | 65 | 0 |
Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Stevenson B | 65 | 0 |
Charles Heydt | Midtown | John Adams A | 65 | 0 |
Michelle Luo | Johns Creek A | Saint Joseph | 65 | 0 |
Aiden Dombrosky | Hoover B | Detroit Country Day | 65 | 0 |
Sam McNamee | Maggie Walker A | Carbondale | 69 | 20 |
Brayden Ferrell | Heights | Thomas Jefferson D | 79 | 0 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Mercer County | 79 | 10 |
Ethan Bosita | St. Mark's | Walter Payton | 82 | 10 |
Pablo Hu | Belmont | Carl Sandburg | 84 | 10 |
Will Carstens | Detroit Catholic Central A | Northmont B | 89 | 10 |
Christian Allen | Dallas County | New Brighton | 90 | 10 |
Ken Arnold | Woodland | Lincoln-Way East | 90 | 10 |
Rohan Navaneetha | Solon | Moberly | 100 | 10 |
C. Schenkel | Washington | Irvington A | 100 | 10 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Chattahoochee B | 108 | 10 |
Ryan Fitzgerald | Northmont A | Hunter B | 109 | 10 |
Yaj Jhajhria | Canyon Crest | Lake Highland | 111 | 0 |
Hayden Qi | Johns Creek B | Rockford Auburn B | 111 | 10 |
William Thain | Saint Joseph | Johns Creek A | 117 | 10 |
Stella Broome | Maggie Walker B | Choate Rosemary Hall | 127 | 10 |
Suhit Damani | Innovation Academy B | Thomas Jefferson C | 127 | 0 |
Aeres Zhou | Detroit Country Day | Hoover B | 127 | 10 |
Charles Young | Barrington A | Winston Churchill B | 129 | 10 |
David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Innovation Academy A | 132 | 10 |
Lucas Jraiche | Detroit Catholic Central B | Thomas Jefferson A | 132 | 10 |
Charlie Bork | Elkhorn North | Winston Churchill A | 132 | 10 |
Nate Mroz | Detroit Catholic Central C | William Fremd | 133 | 10 |
Kyan van Beek | Lake Highland | Canyon Crest | 133 | 0 |
Brian Zhou | Thomas Jefferson D | Heights | 133 | 10 |
Max Kolda | John Adams A | Midtown | 133 | 10 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Parkway West | 133 | 10 |
Grace Sun | Stevenson B | Mira Loma | 133 | 10 |
Pete Wasser | Norris | Rockford Auburn A | 133 | 0 |
John Hines-Shah | Hinsdale Central | Plymouth | 133 | 10 |
Ren Giusti | Norman | Thomas Jefferson B | 133 | 10 |
Miles Sierra | Waukee | Troy | 133 | 10 |