The bachelor James sees one of these beings before his brother says, “You have seen me before to-night, and you know it!” in a story where five couriers talk on a Swiss mountain. The title character sees one of these beings in front of a red light that cries, “Below there!” before being run over by a train while imagining one of these beings in the story “The Signal-Man.” One of these beings is depicted in a John Leech illustration with a chain of keys and cashboxes. In a novella split into “staves,” one of these beings brings a character to his nephew (*) Fred’s party where he is the answer to a game of “Yes and No.” That one of these beings later shows him the children Ignorance and Want. The protagonist of one work has his question “are there no prisons” quoted back by one of these beings who shows him the Crachit family. For 10 points, name these beings that visit Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 78% | 0% | 91.89 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 101.25 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 119.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 25% | 13% | 128.13 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 108.83 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 107.13 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 90.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 126.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 112.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 115.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 98.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 123.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 103.50 |
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| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | evil women enjoyers | 57 | 15 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Egypt Airlines Haters | 59 | 15 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Chicago A | 62 | 15 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | BU | 63 | 15 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont B | 68 | 15 |
| Rhys Lewis | Sheffield A | Birmingham | 72 | 15 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Free Agents 1 | 72 | 15 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 84 | 15 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan B | 86 | 15 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 86 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW B | 86 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Mahjonng Masters | 86 | 15 |
| Henry Keating | Too much from you lately | Billy's Bastion | 89 | 15 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | CWRU | 89 | 15 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Manchester | 90 | 15 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | McGill B | 90 | 15 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | George Washington | 90 | 15 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Illinois B | 91 | 15 |
| David Latimer | Imperial | Warwick C | 92 | 15 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto D | 92 | 15 |
| TJ Pickering | Goober Gang | mongeese | 92 | 15 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | Gruh | 96 | 15 |
| Matthew Andersen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 98 | 15 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 99 | -5 |
| Daniel Merida | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Quatumvirate | 99 | 15 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | NYU C | 99 | 15 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Iowa State | 99 | 15 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCLA A | 102 | 15 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial A | 102 | 15 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | George Mason B | 102 | 15 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 103 | 10 |
| Elliot Earley | Sheffield C | Edinburgh | 104 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Belmont | 104 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Brandeis | 104 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | George Mason C | 104 | 10 |
| Ryan Happel | SIUE | Chicago B | 104 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | Art of Premature Signaling | 110 | 10 |
| Matthew Ribar | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 113 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | NYU B | 113 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto B | Toronto E | 115 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan C | 116 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto C | UBC | 120 | -5 |
| Adam Bentley | Sheffield B | LSE | 122 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Ottawa A | 122 | 10 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | UCLA B | 129 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Lancaster | 129 | 10 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Waterloo C | 129 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 129 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 129 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | Rutgers | 131 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brown | 134 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Charmander | 134 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | UW A | 137 | 10 |
| Max Lin | we need new names | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 137 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 141 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill A | Mac A | 149 | 10 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | UCSB | 151 | 10 |
| Brady Hagan | Ohio State C | Ohio State B | 153 | -5 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Guelph | 160 | 10 |
| Elise Wettach | Oberlin | Michigan D | 162 | 10 |
| Patrick Minsker | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 163 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 168 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | UBC | Toronto C | 168 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Master and Margaritaville | 168 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | South Dakota School of Mines | 168 | 10 |