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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 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF A | Florida A | 31 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto C | 31 | -5 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa A | Murray State College A | 31 | -5 |
| David Xilbille | Georgia Tech C | South Carolina A | 31 | -5 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Cardiff | 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 |
| Bennet Radey | Michigan C | Michigan State B | 50 | 10 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Cambridge A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | George Mason 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 |
| 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 |
| Maisie Quinn | Brown B | Boston College A | 63 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth B | Brandeis Mozart | 63 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | RIT A | 63 | -5 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Waterloo C | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU A | Maryland B | 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 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue B | 63 | 10 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Nebraska A | 63 | 10 |
| Buck Muhlbauer | Nebraska B | Nebraska C | 63 | 10 |
| Devin Tharp | Chipola College | Georgia Tech A | 63 | 10 |
| Fia Gale | Edinburgh D | Durham B | 63 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Cambridge B | 63 | -5 |
| Steven McPhillimey | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 65 | 10 |
| Apollo Daley | Brown A | Tufts A | 65 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | British Columbia B | 65 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 66 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State A | Michigan A | 66 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin A | Iowa State | 66 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto B | Toronto A | 66 | 10 |
| Sam Millenbach | Rowan | NYU C | 66 | 10 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | George Mason C | 66 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | Duke A | 67 | 10 |
| Charlie Nicholls | Cambridge C | LSE | 67 | 10 |
| Aidyn Boren | Murray State College B | Central Oklahoma A | 67 | 10 |
| Scott Hyde | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee Tech | 67 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt C | 68 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Montevallo | 68 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Oxford | 68 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Bach | UConn A | 68 | 10 |
| Lily Hughbanks | Purdue C | Indiana A | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Morrow | Washington Steelhead | Arizona State A | 70 | 10 |
| Justin Gilbert | Auburn C | Vanderbilt B | 70 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Georgia Tech D | 70 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Cornell C | 70 | 10 |
| Rebecca Li | Ottawa A | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Leona Barker | Edinburgh B | Edinburgh A | 70 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington Pink | Texas | 71 | -5 |
| Sam Barrekette | RIT A | Cornell D | 71 | 10 |
| Joseph Wang | UCLA E | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 73 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville D | Pittsburgh | 73 | 10 |
| Arlene Lopez | Stony Brook | Johns Hopkins | 73 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Purdue D | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams A | Dartmouth A | 73 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Waterloo A | 73 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Rutgers D | 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 |
| Tal Bowen | Durham A | Sheffield B | 76 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa A | Rose-Hulman A | 76 | 10 |
| Sonya Bates | Washington Atlantic | Boise State | 76 | 10 |
| Richard D’Angelo | Tennessee B | Clemson C | 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 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Auburn B | 87 | 10 |
| James Mickel | Michigan State C | Michigan State D | 87 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts C | Boston University B | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Boston University A | 87 | 10 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | Ottawa C | 87 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chum | 87 | 10 |
| Brody Johnson | Louisville B | CWRU D | 88 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers B | 88 | 10 |
| Logan Van Pelt | Washington Coho | Alberta B | 89 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington State | 90 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | UNC C | 91 | -5 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Carleton B | 91 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Yuv Magan | UCSD B | Claremont A | 97 | 10 |
| William Berger | Dartmouth C | Brandeis Beethoven | 97 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Illinois Champaign | 97 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Michigan D | 98 | -5 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | Columbia A | 98 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Auburn A | 99 | 10 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto G | Toronto E | 99 | 10 |
| Charles Xin | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 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 |
| Isaiah Schmid | Binghamton B | ESF | 102 | 10 |
| Samarth Majmudar | Illinois Urbana | William Woods University A | 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 |
| Abigail Elms | Queen's A | Toronto H | 111 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | McGill C | 111 | 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 |
| Vishnu Sharma | Texas | Washington Pink | 112 | 0 |
| Haylee Weisner | Washington Masu | Washington Chinook | 112 | 10 |
| Luke Simon | Alberta B | Washington Coho | 112 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ellie Wang | Brock A | McMaster C | 112 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Brock A | 112 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto C | Toronto D | 112 | 10 |
| Tanmay Mirashi | Maryland C | Maryland A | 112 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge B | Southampton | 112 | 0 |