Two regions of this country were sardonically referred to as the “valley of the clueless” because they were outside of the signal range of ARD TV broadcasts. Concerts by the Beatles in a [emphasize] neighboring country precipitated a 1965 youth-led “Beat Revolt” against authorities in this country. A walking figure wearing a straw hat known as the “little light man” first appeared on this country’s pedestrian signals. People in this country waited up to 10 years to acquire a loudly-backfiring plastic car called the Trabant. A famous piece of graffiti showed a leader of this country, Erich Honecker, sharing a fraternal kiss with Leonid Brezhnev. For 10 points, ostalgie romanticizes the culture of what former Communist country, whose citizens were heavily surveilled by the Stasi? ■END■
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.33 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 67.17 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 49.75 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 79.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 43.90 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 81.14 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Iowa | 14 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | NYU C | 17 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Chicago A | 18 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Cambridge E | 18 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Harvard B | 21 | 10 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol | Southampton B | 25 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge B | 26 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Cambridge C | 26 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Brown A | 30 | 10 |
| Alice Ton Nu | UW A | Alberta | 38 | -5 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Liberty A | 52 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | LSE | 52 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | WashU B | 56 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UBC | 58 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Purdue | 60 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | South Carolina | 60 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Southampton A | 60 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | NYU A | 63 | -5 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Maryland B | 63 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Missouri | 64 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | MIT A | 65 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Illinois A | 65 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Liberty B | 65 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 65 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 65 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Penn A | 69 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Oxford A | 69 | 10 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 70 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 72 | 10 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Cornell B | 74 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 78 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 78 | -5 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 81 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Durham | 81 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | UMass Boston | 83 | 10 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | Haverford B | 91 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn B | 96 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Liberty C | 96 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 97 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | Indiana B | 99 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 100 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago D | Illinois C | 101 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | NYU B | 115 | 10 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | George Washington B | 124 | 0 |