A variation for one of these ballet characters ends with four ascending notes with tambourine, a rest [pause], and then three more notes. In the prologue of a ballet, after six of these characters are introduced, another rides in on a chariot and tears off Catala•butte’s hair. In a 1954 New York production, Maria Tallchief performed as one of these characters, who dances a pas de deux with her Cavalier after the “Waltz of the (*) Flowers.” One of these characters named “Lilac” feuds with the uninvited Carabosse, who curses Princess Aurora. In another ballet, one of these characters welcomes Clara to the Land of Sweets and has a famous solo dance set to celesta. For 10 points, the prima ballerina in The Nutcracker dances what type of character named “Sugar Plum?” ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 11% | 56% | 105.56 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 118.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 68.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 25% | 38% | 95.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 114.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 110.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 98.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 20% | 100.40 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 94.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 130.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 60% | 93.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 97.17 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Yao | Brown | MIT | 34 | -5 |
| Joy An | Harvard | Belmont | 36 | -5 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Chicago A | 40 | -5 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 58 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Master and Margaritaville | 58 | 15 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Sheffield B | 58 | 15 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Too much from you lately | 59 | 15 |
| Daniel Merida | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Quatumvirate | 59 | -5 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Goober Gang | 59 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | MSJ | 59 | -5 |
| Steven Yuan | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Egypt Airlines Haters | 59 | 15 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | evil women enjoyers | 59 | -5 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Mac A | 59 | 15 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Waterloo C | 59 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 61 | 15 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University A | 63 | 15 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Imperial A | 63 | -5 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Michigan C | 65 | 15 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto D | 65 | 15 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD | 65 | -5 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Ohio State D | 65 | -5 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Iowa State | 67 | -5 |
| Scarlett Rutter | Claremont B | girl 15 whale i mean they | 68 | 15 |
| Alan Fan | Mahjonng Masters | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 68 | -5 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | NYU C | 71 | -5 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | BU | 74 | -5 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington | Haverford B | 74 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 74 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Gruh | Illinois Orange | 74 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto C | UBC | 74 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Waterloo A | 74 | -5 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | NYU B | 74 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | CWRU | NYU A | 74 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester | 78 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Sheffield A | 78 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Ottawa A | 78 | -5 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Oberlin | 79 | -5 |
| Brady Hagan | Ohio State C | Ohio State B | 79 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 80 | -5 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | Art of Premature Signaling | 80 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 80 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto E | 84 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Truman State | 85 | 10 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 87 | 10 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 89 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Guelph | 89 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 94 | -5 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 96 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Brandeis | 103 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU Bulbasaur | 104 | 10 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | Catholic University of America | 107 | -5 |
| Kushal Aluru | Rutgers | George Mason A | 107 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | South Dakota School of Mines | 108 | 10 |
| Matthew Rittenberg | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 109 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Lancaster | 109 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | SIUE | 109 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason C | Maryland B | 110 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | evil women enjoyers | Auburn 2026 | 111 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brown | 112 | 10 |
| Max Lin | we need new names | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 112 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | Carleton | 114 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial | Warwick C | 121 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 128 | 10 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | UCLA B | 129 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 129 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Mason B | 129 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | Caltech | 129 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | Simon Fraser | 129 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 130 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | BU | Lexington | 130 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Harvard | 130 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | Quatumvirate | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 130 | 10 |
| Brandon Hunt | Goober Gang | mongeese | 130 | 10 |
| Manu Cherukumille | MSJ | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 130 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Warwick B | 130 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | McGill B | 130 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Missouri | 130 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | CWRU | 130 | 10 |
| Chansol Park | NYU C | Haverford A | 130 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago A | Illinois A | 130 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Illinois C | 130 | 10 |
| Arev Lima Boudakian | Oberlin | Michigan D | 130 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan B | 130 | 10 |
| Lucia Gellert | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Mahjonng Masters | 130 | 10 |
| Jason Wang | Waterloo C | Toronto A | 130 | 10 |