This author suggested the idea for, and was the dedicatee of, a musical about Steeltown U.S.A.; that musical by Marc Blitzstein is The Cradle Will Rock. While waiting to lodge a complaint, a woman created by this author sings of how, when young and proud, a bird told her of her future passivity. In lyrics written by this author, the singer repeats “I tell you we must die” while looking for “the next whiskey bar.” The prostitute Yvette sings the “Fraternization Song” in a play by this author that ends with the protagonist singing a lullaby and hitching herself to a wagon. This playwright wrote the lyrics to “Alabama Song” and a song about “old Macheath” titled “Mack the Knife.” For 10 points, Kurt Weill (“vile”) co-wrote The Threepenny Opera with what German author of Mother Courage and Her Children? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 83.50 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 123.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 17% | 95.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 103.67 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 93.50 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 112.70 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Northwestern B | 26 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | Claremont B | 44 | -5 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Indiana B | 48 | -5 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Northwestern A | 74 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Iowa | 77 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan B | 77 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 78 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 80 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 80 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | William & Mary | 80 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | South Carolina | 81 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 81 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU A | 85 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial A | 86 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UCSD | 87 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia A | 87 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Chicago D | 89 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Illinois C | 89 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Missouri | 89 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 92 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Manchester | 92 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | Alberta | 105 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | Wake Forest | 119 | -5 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 119 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge E | 119 | 10 |
| Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | NYU C | 119 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Imperial B | 119 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Bristol | 119 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge D | 122 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Vanderbilt A | 123 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Durham | 125 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Cambridge C | 128 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Kenyon | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Chicago C | 131 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue | Notre Dame B | 132 | 10 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | UNC D | 132 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon A | 135 | 10 |
| Aidan Deshong | Claremont B | Claremont A | 139 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame C | 139 | 0 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Georgetown B | 139 | 0 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Notre Dame A | 139 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Louisville A | 139 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois A | 139 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan State | 139 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Michigan D | 139 | 10 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | Liberty C | 139 | 0 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | Liberty B | 139 | 0 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Warwick A | 139 | 10 |