In a story by this author, a woman returns from a movie to find her brother passed out drunk beside her son taking a bath. A photojournalist dies in a tsunami in this author’s story “Going Ashore,” which appears in a collection by this author titled for a phrase from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Custom-House.” A 103-year-old woman created by this author breaks her hip after falling off a bench and exclaims “She’s a perfect lady!” upon meeting a former tenant’s wife. In that story by this author, the protagonist is forced to praise America’s landing on the moon as “Splendid.” This author of Unaccustomed Earth wrote a story in which Rohin defines the title word as “loving someone you don’t know.” For 10 points, name this author who included “Sexy” in her collection Interpreter of Maladies. ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 128.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 98.40 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 29.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 93.80 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.50 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 123.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC B | 22 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago B | 24 | 10 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford A | Rutgers A | 26 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois A | 34 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Georgetown B | 38 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | UW B | 44 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Dartmouth A | 51 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue | Iowa | 55 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Notre Dame B | 57 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan C | 74 | -5 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Bristol | 75 | -5 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Harvard B | 80 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Liberty B | 86 | 10 |
| Rosa Xia | Cornell B | NYU B | 94 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | UMass Boston | 97 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Columbia C | 97 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Haverford B | 98 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida State A | 99 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | Valencia A | 99 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Bruin A | 99 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge A | 99 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington A | 99 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Notre Dame A | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Sheffield | 104 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan B | 109 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 109 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 110 | -5 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 115 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Wake Forest | 117 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick A | Cambridge E | 117 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western A | 120 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | UNC D | 120 | -5 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Vanderbilt A | 120 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Durham | 120 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 123 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge C | 128 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 129 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC C | 131 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Penn B | 131 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | Case Western B | Ohio State B | 132 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Brandeis B | 132 | 10 |
| Linus Luu | Cambridge D | Warwick B | 132 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Maryland B | 132 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Southampton A | 133 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Oxford A | 133 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Imperial B | 133 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Notre Dame C | 134 | 10 |
| Iris Liang | Cornell D | Cornell C | 134 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Tufts A | 135 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | George Washington B | 135 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida B | 136 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF C | 136 | 0 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan A | 136 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State A | 136 | 10 |
| Elias Kradel | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon B | 136 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty C | 136 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 136 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Purdue | 136 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 136 | 0 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Oxford B | 136 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF A | 136 | 10 |