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Round 17: Tossup 6

Peoples in what is now this US state added Christian practices to the concept of himdag, which supposedly emerged when the Wooshkam tore down Siwani’s cities. The mistranslation “all used up” has been applied to a culture in this state that built a ruin indigenously called Siwañ Wa’a Ki, which sits under a shelter designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and was first described by Eusebio Kino. The settlement (-5[1])of Snaketown (-5[1])and vast (10[1]-5[1])networks of canals (10[1])were built in this state by an urban culture (10[1])named after (10[1])“those who came before,” the Hohokam. (10[3])Lifestyles (10[2])centered on what are called Hia-C’ed (-5[1])(“HEE-ah ched”), Tohono, or (10[2])Akimel name the O’odham (“OH-od-um”) peoples (10[1])of this (10[1])US state, (-5[1])who revolted against Spanish incursion (-5[3])when it made up the north of the Pimería Alta or “Land of the Upper Pima.” For 10 points, (-5[1])what state’s settlers built Fort Defiance and Fort Yuma? (10[1])■END■ (10[9]0[1])

ANSWER: Arizona [or AZ] (The name Hohokam derives from the O’odham concept of huhugam, which refers to ancestors rather than vanished cultures. The Hia-C’ed, Tohono, and Akimel O’odham are respectively named for dunes, desert, and the river. Eusebio Kino described the Casa Grande.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Brendan Bethlehem	Cambridge	Pittsburgh	67	-5
Cole Hartung	Georgetown	Chicago B	69	-5
Robert Wang	Columbia A	NYU A	71	-5
Ryan Rosenberg	NYU A	Columbia A	71	10
Vivian Malouf	UC Berkeley A	Maryland A	74	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia	Illinois A	83	10
Michael Du	Waterloo	Illinois B	85	10
Jacob Puthipiroj	Northwestern A	Indiana	91	10
Ben Hellman	Swarthmore	Maryland B	91	10
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	UC Berkeley B	91	10
Ved Muthusamy	Northwestern B	Purdue	92	10
Denis Liu	Stanford B	Penn State	92	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Texas	98	-5
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Georgia Tech B	100	10
John John Groger	WashU	Toronto B	100	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Michigan	105	10
Vikshar Athreya	Rutgers	Johns Hopkins	107	10
Claire Jones	Chicago A	Stanford A	109	-5
Emerson Patmore	Georgia Tech C	MIT	114	-5
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	NYU B	114	-5
Graham Troy	North Carolina	Cornell	114	-5
Sky Li	Toronto A	Harvard	133	-5
Athena Shadden	Texas	Minnesota	142	10
Megan Wang	Brown	UCF	143	10
Ariel Faeder	Pittsburgh	Cambridge	143	10
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Chicago A	143	10
William Houston	Chicago B	Georgetown	143	10
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Georgia Tech A	143	10
Jonathan Huang	MIT	Georgia Tech C	143	10
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Virginia	143	10
Kevin Peng	Cornell	North Carolina	143	0
Rohan Ganeshan	Harvard	Toronto A	143	10
Jaskaran Singh	UCLA	Vanderbilt	143	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
Main Site	2026-04-17	✓	24	96%	38%	113.52