This activity is the subject of a developing Lionsgate TV series that will tell a real life story including Orange County resident Mathew Bowyer. In The Godfather, Carlo Rizzi is given a small job overseeing this activity, but makes a critical mistake by creating a “middle.” To promote this activity, CEOs Amy Howe and Tom Reeg have worked with Renie Anderson and Roger Goodell. Four Detroit Lions players, including (*) Jameson Williams, were suspended for doing this activity in league facilities. Pete Rose is banned from the MLB Hall of Fame for this activity, which also led to the arrest of Shohei Ohtani’s former translator. Variants to this activity include the “over–under” and combining multiple legs into a parlay. For 10 points, name this activity of “odds” that drives a growing industry led by FanDuel and DraftKings. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 22% | 11% | 76.11 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 87.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 71.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 80.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 54.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 38% | 25% | 86.63 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 75.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 84.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 101.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liam Starnes | Chicago A | WashU Charmander | 27 | 15 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Quatumvirate | 36 | -5 |
| Adam Hermann | Claremont A | UCLA B | 36 | 15 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Edinburgh | 41 | -5 |
| Graham Troy | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 45 | -5 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 49 | 15 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | NYU C | 59 | 15 |
| Tad Horomanski | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 63 | 15 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 63 | 15 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 63 | 15 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Maryland A | 64 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Auburn 2026 | 65 | 15 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Toronto Metropolitan | 66 | 15 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Lexington | 67 | 15 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Missouri | 67 | 15 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan D | 67 | 15 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto D | 67 | 15 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 68 | 15 |
| Emma Victoria Byron | Rutgers | Maryland B | 69 | 10 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | McGill B | 69 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University B | 69 | 10 |
| Will Houston | Chicago B | Iowa State | 70 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State A | Oberlin | 70 | -5 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | Haverford B | 70 | -5 |
| Henry Keating | Too much from you lately | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 72 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | we need new names | 72 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Illinois Orange | 72 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Cambridge | 72 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa A | Toronto C | 72 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 73 | 10 |
| Zhiheng Liu | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 74 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCSB | 74 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State D | Ohio State B | 76 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Quatumvirate | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 76 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCLA A | 78 | 10 |
| Rishi Swaminathan | NYU B | Johns Hopkins B | 78 | -5 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Washington Connections | 78 | 10 |
| Anya Srinivasan | UW A | Arizona State University A | 79 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 81 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Warwick C | 81 | 10 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Goober Gang | 83 | 10 |
| Aiden Wegener | George Washington | George Mason B | 83 | 10 |
| Marleyna Parrett | George Mason C | Haverford A | 83 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 86 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Belmont | 86 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Warwick B | 86 | 10 |
| Ian Tullis | Art of Premature Signaling | Claremont B | 86 | 10 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | UBC | 87 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shotriya | Gruh | MSJ | 89 | 10 |
| Ragulan Sivakumar | MIT | BU | 92 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 92 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | SD Mines | 92 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Toronto E | 93 | 10 |
| Yusuf | Mac A | Simon Fraser | 95 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto A | Guelph | 97 | 10 |
| Alex Xu | Caltech | UCSD | 102 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Brandeis | 103 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial A | Lancaster | 103 | 10 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 103 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Imperial B | 131 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | NYU B | 136 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Manchester | 136 | 10 |
| Naomi Joseph | Oberlin | Ohio State A | 136 | 10 |
| Will Snyder | Haverford B | Catholic University of America | 136 | 10 |