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A scene in this novella describes how “a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment” after the death of a character whose body “flopped like a fish.” A character in this novella threatens to get a man with a crooked back “strung up on a tree,” and later bemoans how she married a man who wears a Vaseline-filled glove. In this novella, Carlson shoots the handyman Candy’s aging dog. In this novella, a character who dreams he’ll “live on the fatta the lan’” is killed to stop him from being lynched for strangling Curley’s wife. For 10 points, what John Steinbeck novella ends with George shooting Lennie? ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 83.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.86 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 88.80 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 89.25 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 112.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 80.42 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 33% | 88.88 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 78.33 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.22 |
| North | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.33 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 88.88 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 66.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 15% | 75.08 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 62.43 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doug Frederick | Auburn A | Emory A | 22 | -5 |
| Rishi Mathur | Claremont B | UCLA C | 31 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto C | 31 | -5 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa A | Murray State College A | 31 | -5 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Cardiff | 31 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF A | Florida A | 31 | -5 |
| David Xilbille | Georgia Tech C | South Carolina A | 31 | -5 |
| Dan Millington | Birmingham | Imperial A | 35 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland A | Maryland C | 44 | -5 |
| David Nickel | Purdue A | Illinois Blue | 45 | 10 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Cambridge A | 50 | 10 |
| Bennet Radey | Michigan C | Michigan State B | 50 | 10 |
| David Ciardella | Vermont B | Amherst A | 53 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill C | Ottawa B | 59 | -5 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Cambridge E | 60 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD A | UCLA D | 62 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Waterloo C | 63 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | George Mason A | 63 | 10 |
| Cooper Morris | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 63 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | Chicago A | 63 | 10 |
| Mica Oestreich | Illinois Canada | Chicago B | 63 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth B | Brandeis Mozart | 63 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | RIT A | 63 | -5 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Nebraska A | 63 | 10 |
| Buck Muhlbauer | Nebraska B | Nebraska C | 63 | 10 |
| Fia Gale | Edinburgh D | Durham B | 63 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Cambridge B | 63 | -5 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Stanford B | 63 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU A | Louisville A | 63 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU B | Michigan B | 63 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC A | Virginia A | 63 | 10 |
| Ezra Zareba | UNC B | UNC D | 63 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | William & Mary A | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU A | Maryland B | 63 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue B | 63 | 10 |
| Maisie Quinn | Brown B | Boston College A | 63 | 10 |
| Devin Tharp | Chipola College | Georgia Tech A | 63 | 10 |
| Musa Ahmed | Edinburgh C | Sheffield A | 63 | 10 |
| Jack Disbury | Durham D | York | 63 | 10 |
| Saleena Livera | Imperial B | Cambridge D | 63 | 10 |
| Steven McPhillimey | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 65 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | British Columbia B | 65 | 10 |
| Apollo Daley | Brown A | Tufts A | 65 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto B | Toronto A | 66 | 10 |
| Sam Millenbach | Rowan | NYU C | 66 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 66 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State A | Michigan A | 66 | 10 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | George Mason C | 66 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin A | Iowa State | 66 | 10 |
| Aidyn Boren | Murray State College B | Central Oklahoma A | 67 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | Duke A | 67 | 10 |
| Scott Hyde | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee Tech | 67 | 10 |
| Charlie Nicholls | Cambridge C | LSE | 67 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt C | 68 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Montevallo | 68 | 10 |
| Lily Hughbanks | Purdue C | Indiana A | 68 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Bach | UConn A | 68 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Oxford | 68 | 10 |
| Justin Gilbert | Auburn C | Vanderbilt B | 70 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Georgia Tech D | 70 | 10 |
| Leona Barker | Edinburgh B | Edinburgh A | 70 | 10 |
| Rebecca Li | Ottawa A | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Gavin Morrow | Washington Steelhead | Arizona State A | 70 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Cornell C | 70 | 10 |
| Sam Barrekette | RIT A | Cornell D | 71 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington Pink | Texas | 71 | -5 |
| Joseph Wang | UCLA E | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 73 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Waterloo A | 73 | 10 |
| Arlene Lopez | Stony Brook | Johns Hopkins | 73 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Rutgers D | 73 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Purdue D | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams A | Dartmouth A | 73 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville D | Pittsburgh | 73 | 10 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State College A | Tulsa A | 73 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech C | 73 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont C | UCLA A | 75 | 10 |
| Jonah McGinley | Rochester | Cornell B | 75 | 10 |
| Sonya Bates | Washington Atlantic | Boise State | 76 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa A | Rose-Hulman A | 76 | 10 |
| Richard D’Angelo | Tennessee B | Clemson C | 76 | 10 |
| Tal Bowen | Durham A | Sheffield B | 76 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Waterloo B | 78 | 10 |
| Bokei Thompson | Amherst B | Boston College B | 78 | 10 |
| Jacky Li | MIT B | Harvard | 78 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Clemson A | 78 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | NCSU A | 80 | 10 |
| Aiden Wilson | WVU B | Louisville C | 81 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 81 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | McGill B | 85 | 10 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | Ottawa C | 87 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts C | Boston University B | 87 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chum | 87 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Auburn B | 87 | 10 |
| James Mickel | Michigan State C | Michigan State D | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Boston University A | 87 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers B | 88 | 10 |
| Brody Johnson | Louisville B | CWRU D | 88 | 10 |
| Logan Van Pelt | Washington Coho | Alberta B | 89 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington State | 90 | 10 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Carleton B | 91 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | UNC C | 91 | -5 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Georgia A | 91 | 10 |
| Isabelle Mitchem | WVU A | Ohio State D | 92 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Williams B | 92 | 10 |
| Judah Solomon | Imperial D | Bristol | 94 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Illinois Champaign | 97 | 10 |
| William Berger | Dartmouth C | Brandeis Beethoven | 97 | 10 |
| Yuv Magan | UCSD B | Claremont A | 97 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Michigan D | 98 | -5 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | Columbia A | 98 | 10 |
| Charles Xin | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 99 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Auburn A | 99 | 10 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto G | Toronto E | 99 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | USC B | 100 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 101 | 10 |
| Parker Jones | NCSU B | JMU B | 102 | 10 |
| Samarth Majmudar | Illinois Urbana | William Woods University A | 102 | 10 |
| Isaiah Schmid | Binghamton B | ESF | 102 | 10 |
| Jonah Chancio | JMU A | Liberty A | 106 | -5 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Kentucky | 109 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn | George Mason B | 110 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | McGill C | 111 | 10 |
| Abigail Elms | Queen's A | Toronto H | 111 | 10 |
| Ellie Wang | Brock A | McMaster C | 112 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Brock A | 112 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto C | Toronto D | 112 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge B | Southampton | 112 | 0 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto I | 112 | 0 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | UCF A | 112 | 10 |
| Gary Wang | Michigan D | Ohio State C | 112 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | JMU A | 112 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | Tusculum A | 112 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | UNC D | UNC B | 112 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | VCU A | 112 | 0 |
| Tanmay Mirashi | Maryland C | Maryland A | 112 | 10 |
| Vishnu Sharma | Texas | Washington Pink | 112 | 0 |
| Haylee Weisner | Washington Masu | Washington Chinook | 112 | 10 |
| Luke Simon | Alberta B | Washington Coho | 112 | 10 |