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 |
| 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 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Too much from you lately | 59 | 15 |
| 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 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Imperial A | 63 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University A | 63 | 15 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Ohio State D | 65 | -5 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto D | 65 | 15 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Michigan C | 65 | 15 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD | 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 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | NYU B | 74 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | CWRU | NYU A | 74 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | BU | 74 | -5 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Waterloo A | 74 | -5 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington | Haverford B | 74 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 80 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Lancaster | 109 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | SIUE | 109 | 10 |
| Matthew Rittenberg | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 109 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason C | Maryland B | 110 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | evil women enjoyers | Auburn 2026 | 111 | 10 |
| Max Lin | we need new names | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 112 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brown | 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 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | Caltech | 129 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Mason B | 129 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | Simon Fraser | 129 | 10 |
| Arev Lima Boudakian | Oberlin | Michigan D | 130 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan B | 130 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | CWRU | 130 | 10 |
| Chansol Park | NYU C | Haverford A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago A | Illinois A | 130 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Missouri | 130 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Illinois C | 130 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | McGill B | 130 | 10 |
| Lucia Gellert | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Mahjonng Masters | 130 | 10 |
| Jason Wang | Waterloo C | Toronto A | 130 | 10 |