A monologue likens this character’s success to Reverend Gates, who is forced to dance at gunpoint in the sundown town of Sigsbee. While waiting for this character to arrive, two of her colleagues bet a dollar that one of them can spell “music,” which he spells “M-U-S-I-K.” This character first enters accompanied by a policeman trying to arrest her for assaulting a cab driver. This woman refuses to work until she is brought a Coca-Cola and demands that a spoken-word intro be performed by her stuttering nephew Sylvester. Levee stabs his bandmate Toledo in a play titled for this woman that is the only play from its author’s Century Cycle not to be set in Pittsburgh. For 10 points, name this blues singer who appears in an August Wilson play titled for her “Black Bottom.” ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 98.67 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 17% | 115.50 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 88.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 112.50 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 118.40 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.50 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.90 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 112.00 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 67% | 125.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 26 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley B | 46 | -5 |
| Kaiden Carey | Penn B | Penn A | 46 | -5 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 46 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Rutgers A | 48 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Harvard B | 63 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Indiana A | 65 | -5 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Cambridge E | 72 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Chicago A | 78 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 79 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Cambridge D | 79 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 79 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 79 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago D | 80 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Tufts A | 89 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC C | 92 | -5 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Oxford C | 92 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge C | 96 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 98 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Dartmouth A | 99 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 99 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF C | 103 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 103 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Yale A | 104 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 107 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 115 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland A | 115 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 115 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 115 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | NYU C | 115 | 10 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | ESF A | 115 | -5 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 118 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 118 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 118 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | South Carolina | 118 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 118 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 121 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 122 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Carleton | 122 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Oxford B | 122 | 10 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Vassar A | 122 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Durham | 124 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Haverford A | 124 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 125 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 125 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois B | 127 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Southampton A | 127 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 128 | 10 |
| Elijah O’Sick Johnson | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 132 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | MIT A | 134 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 135 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Claremont B | UCLA | 135 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 135 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Penn B | 135 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 135 | 0 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Wisconsin A | 135 | 0 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Brandeis B | 135 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Brown A | 135 | 10 |
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | UNC D | 135 | 0 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Warwick B | 135 | 10 |