Question

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 (10[1])to arrive, two of her colleagues bet a dollar that one of them can spell “music,” which he spells “M-U-S-I-K.” (10[1]-5[2])This character (-5[1])first enters accompanied by a policeman trying to arrest her for assaulting a cab driver. (-5[1])This woman (-5[1])refuses to work until she is brought (10[1])a Coca-Cola and demands that a (10[1])spoken-word (10[4])intro (10[1])be performed by her stuttering nephew Sylvester. Levee stabs (10[1])his bandmate Toledo (10[1]-5[1])in a play titled (10[1])for this (10[1])woman (10[2])that is the only (10[2])play (10[1])from its author’s (10[1])Century Cycle not to be set in Pittsburgh. (10[5]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[6])name this blues (10[1])singer (10[4])who appears (10[2])in (10[2])an August (10[2])Wilson (10[1])play titled for her (-5[1])“Black Bottom.” (10[1])■END■ (10[7]0[3])

ANSWER: Ma Rainey [or Gertrude Pridgett; accept Madame Rainey; accept Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; prompt on Ma or Madame]
<HG, American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

California2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%98.67
Florida2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%118.67
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y667%0%17%115.50
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%88.00
North2025-02-01Y367%0%0%112.50
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%118.40
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%123.00
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%115.00
Southeast2025-02-01Y4100%0%0%108.50
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%0%106.90
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y8100%0%25%112.00
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y333%0%67%125.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AUCSD2610
Kevin ParkClaremont AUC Berkeley B46-5
Michael HundingIllinois AMissoui S&T4610
Kaiden CareyPenn BPenn A46-5
William OrrYale ARutgers A48-5
Nathan SheffieldMIT AHarvard B63-5
Arjun KalaIllinois BIndiana A65-5
Rahim DinaImperial ACambridge E7210
Neal JoshiWashU BChicago A7810
Nermeen RahmanIndiana BIllinois C7910
Kevin WangGeorgia Tech CGeorgia Tech D7910
Albert NyangLSECambridge D7910
David BassJohns Hopkins ANYU B7910
Braden BoothMissouriChicago D8010
Christopher DechBrandeis ATufts A8910
Ivan StanisavljevicDukeUNC C92-5
Kevin FlanaganBristolOxford C9210
Kai MadgwickManchesterCambridge C9610
Noah ChinVirginia Tech ALiberty A9810
Arjun NageswaranHarvard ADartmouth A9910
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegeHaverford B9910
Khanh NguyenFlorida AUCF C10310
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BWinona State10310
Aum MundheRutgers AYale A10410
Arya KarthikOxford ACambridge B10710
Athena ShaddenTexas ATexas B11510
Bryan UgazASUTAMU11510
Jack LewisBruin ATennessee A11510
Agnijo BanerjeeCambridge ANYU C11510
Jack RadoColumbia BMaryland A11510
Greg ReiserRIT BESF A115-5
Anna BarkerUCF BFlorida B11810
Chris YooWilliam & MaryLiberty B11810
Crow HeUNC BSouth Carolina11810
Liam StarnesChicago BChicago C11810
Yuxuan LuVanderbilt AGeorgia Tech A11810
Gus VanskikeMaryland BGeorge Washington B11810
Anne FjeldAlbertaUBC12110
Guy IndoranteIowa StateCarleton12210
Beckett GilmoreLouisville AGeorgia Tech B12210
Michael WuSouthampton BOxford B12210
Nicholas LaneGeorge Washington AVassar A12210
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick ADurham12410
Richard NiuCornell BHaverford A12410
Truman FillbrandtUW AUW B12510
Cade ReinbergerRIT ACornell D12510
Justin HawkinsIndiana AIllinois B12710
Andrew FisherSheffieldSouthampton A12710
Joseph ChambersVirginia ALiberty C12810
Elijah O’Sick JohnsonBinghamton ACornell C132-5
Chloe ChowHarvard BMIT A13410
Adam HermannClaremont BUCLA13510
Ryan SunUC Berkeley BClaremont A13510
Clete ReinbergerValencia AFlorida State A13510
Catherine MajorWake ForestUNC D1350
Alex SmitsWisconsin BWisconsin A1350
Nithin MenduWisconsin AWisconsin B1350
Khugan ChanUMass BostonBrown A13510
Hanson HuynhBUBrandeis B13510
Joshua BobinImperial BWarwick B13510
Danny HanPenn APenn B13510