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 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 63 | 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 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Maryland A | 64 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Auburn 2026 | 65 | 15 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Toronto Metropolitan | 66 | 15 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan D | 67 | 15 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | Lexington | 67 | 15 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto D | 67 | 15 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Missouri | 67 | 15 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 68 | 15 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | McGill B | 69 | 10 |
| Emma Victoria Byron | Rutgers | Maryland B | 69 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Arizona State University B | 69 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State A | Oberlin | 70 | -5 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | Haverford B | 70 | -5 |
| Will Houston | Chicago B | Iowa State | 70 | 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 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | we need new names | 72 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | Too much from you lately | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 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 |
| Darren Kellis | Quatumvirate | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 76 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State D | Ohio State B | 76 | 10 |
| Rishi Swaminathan | NYU B | Johns Hopkins B | 78 | -5 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Washington Connections | 78 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCLA A | 78 | 10 |
| Anya Srinivasan | UW A | Arizona State University A | 79 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Warwick C | 81 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 81 | 10 |
| Aiden Wegener | George Washington | George Mason B | 83 | 10 |
| Marleyna Parrett | George Mason C | Haverford A | 83 | 10 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Goober Gang | 83 | 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 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 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 |
| Naomi Joseph | Oberlin | Ohio State A | 136 | 10 |
| Will Snyder | Haverford B | Catholic University of America | 136 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Manchester | 136 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | NYU B | 136 | 10 |