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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 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF A | Florida A | 31 | -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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | William & Mary A | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU A | Maryland B | 63 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | Chicago A | 63 | 10 |
| Mica Oestreich | Illinois Canada | Chicago B | 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 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Waterloo C | 63 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC A | Virginia A | 63 | 10 |
| Ezra Zareba | UNC B | UNC D | 63 | -5 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | George Mason A | 63 | 10 |
| Cooper Morris | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 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 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | RIT A | 63 | -5 |
| Apollo Daley | Brown A | Tufts A | 65 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | British Columbia B | 65 | 10 |
| Steven McPhillimey | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 65 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State A | Michigan A | 66 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin A | Iowa State | 66 | 10 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | George Mason C | 66 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 66 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto B | Toronto A | 66 | 10 |
| Sam Millenbach | Rowan | NYU 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 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Bach | UConn A | 68 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt C | 68 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Montevallo | 68 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Oxford | 68 | 10 |
| Lily Hughbanks | Purdue C | Indiana A | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Morrow | Washington Steelhead | Arizona State A | 70 | 10 |
| Rebecca Li | Ottawa A | McGill 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 |
| 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 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Purdue D | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams A | Dartmouth A | 73 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville D | Pittsburgh | 73 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Tal Bowen | Durham A | Sheffield B | 76 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa A | Rose-Hulman A | 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 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 81 | 10 |
| Aiden Wilson | WVU B | Louisville C | 81 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | McGill B | 85 | 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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chum | 87 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Auburn B | 87 | 10 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | Ottawa C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Williams B | 92 | 10 |
| Isabelle Mitchem | WVU A | Ohio State D | 92 | 10 |
| Judah Solomon | Imperial D | Bristol | 94 | 10 |
| William Berger | Dartmouth C | Brandeis Beethoven | 97 | 10 |
| Yuv Magan | UCSD B | Claremont A | 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 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto G | Toronto E | 99 | 10 |
| Charles Xin | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 99 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Auburn A | 99 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | USC B | 100 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 101 | 10 |
| Isaiah Schmid | Binghamton B | ESF | 102 | 10 |
| Parker Jones | NCSU B | JMU B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Vishnu Sharma | Texas | Washington Pink | 112 | 0 |
| Haylee Weisner | Washington Masu | Washington Chinook | 112 | 10 |
| Luke Simon | Alberta B | Washington Coho | 112 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | JMU A | 112 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | VCU A | 112 | 0 |
| Tanmay Mirashi | Maryland C | Maryland A | 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 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | Tusculum A | 112 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | UNC D | UNC B | 112 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge B | Southampton | 112 | 0 |