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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 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Cardiff | 31 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto C | 31 | -5 |
| David Xilbille | Georgia Tech C | South Carolina A | 31 | -5 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa A | Murray State College 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 |
| 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 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Waterloo C | 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 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue B | 63 | 10 |
| Maisie Quinn | Brown B | Boston College A | 63 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth B | Brandeis Mozart | 63 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Cambridge B | 63 | -5 |
| Saleena Livera | Imperial B | Cambridge D | 63 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | RIT A | 63 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | William & Mary A | 63 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | George Mason A | 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 |
| Devin Tharp | Chipola College | Georgia Tech A | 63 | 10 |
| Fia Gale | Edinburgh D | Durham B | 63 | 10 |
| Musa Ahmed | Edinburgh C | Sheffield A | 63 | 10 |
| Jack Disbury | Durham D | York | 63 | 10 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Nebraska A | 63 | 10 |
| Buck Muhlbauer | Nebraska B | Nebraska C | 63 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 66 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | Duke A | 67 | 10 |
| Charlie Nicholls | Cambridge C | LSE | 67 | 10 |
| Scott Hyde | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee Tech | 67 | 10 |
| Aidyn Boren | Murray State College B | Central Oklahoma A | 67 | 10 |
| Lily Hughbanks | Purdue C | Indiana A | 68 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Oxford | 68 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt C | 68 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Montevallo | 68 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Bach | UConn A | 68 | 10 |
| Rebecca Li | Ottawa A | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Cornell C | 70 | 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 |
| Gavin Morrow | Washington Steelhead | Arizona State A | 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 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville D | Pittsburgh | 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 |
| Arlene Lopez | Stony Brook | Johns Hopkins | 73 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Rutgers D | 73 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech C | 73 | 10 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State College A | Tulsa A | 73 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont C | UCLA A | 75 | 10 |
| Jonah McGinley | Rochester | Cornell B | 75 | 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 |
| Sonya Bates | Washington Atlantic | Boise State | 76 | 10 |
| Bokei Thompson | Amherst B | Boston College B | 78 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Clemson A | 78 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Waterloo B | 78 | 10 |
| Jacky Li | MIT B | Harvard | 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 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | Ottawa C | 87 | 10 |
| James Mickel | Michigan State C | Michigan State D | 87 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts C | Boston University B | 87 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Auburn B | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Boston University A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge B | Southampton | 112 | 0 |
| Ellie Wang | Brock A | McMaster C | 112 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Brock A | 112 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto C | Toronto D | 112 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | VCU A | 112 | 0 |
| Tanmay Mirashi | Maryland C | Maryland A | 112 | 10 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto I | 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 |