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 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 46 | 10 |
| Kaiden Carey | Penn B | Penn A | 46 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 79 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 79 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Cambridge D | 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 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Winona State | 103 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF C | 103 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Yale A | 104 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 107 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 115 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas B | 115 | 10 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | ESF A | 115 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 115 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | NYU C | 115 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland A | 115 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 118 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 118 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 118 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 118 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | South Carolina | 118 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 121 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Carleton | 122 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Penn B | 135 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 135 | 10 |
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | UNC D | 135 | 0 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Warwick B | 135 | 10 |