This author wrote a film in which a woman says “I didn’t think such violent things could happen to ordinary people,” before being asked “whatever your dream was, it wasn’t a very happy one, was it?” by a man who puts down his crossword. Ben Hecht adapted a play by this author into Ernst Lubitsch’s romcom Design for Living. A housewife and doctor meet at a train station in this author’s play Still Life, which inspired David Lean’s film Brief Encounter. Kay Hammond wore green makeup for a film that abandons this author’s signature finale, in which the protagonist tiptoes offstage. In a play by this author, Charles Condomine deals with the jealousies of his second wife Ruth and the ghost of his deceased wife, Elvira. For 10 points, a séance occurs in what author’s play Blithe Spirit? ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 138.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 133.25 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 99.25 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 112.17 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 124.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 114.67 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 0% | 97.86 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 112.83 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 138.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Penn A | 51 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Iowa | 52 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 60 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | UNC D | 61 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford B | 70 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Missouri | 72 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 73 | 10 |
| Luke Robitaille | MIT A | Harvard A | 78 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Oxford A | 79 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 81 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | William & Mary | 86 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 88 | 10 |
| Claire Jones | Chicago A | Chicago C | 100 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | ASU | 100 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 100 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers A | 102 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | WashU B | 103 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Purdue | 103 | -5 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Indiana A | 104 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 109 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 112 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 115 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW A | 117 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Johns Hopkins A | 120 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Southampton A | 123 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 124 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 125 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Imperial A | 125 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 128 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | John Jay College | 128 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Case Western A | 133 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Harvard B | 134 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech A | 134 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 135 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 137 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech D | 137 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida State A | 138 | 0 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | UCF B | 138 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 138 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan C | 138 | 0 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 138 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan D | 138 | 0 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Michigan State | 138 | 0 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 138 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty C | 138 | 0 |
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | Duke | 138 | 0 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Wake Forest | 138 | 0 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | South Carolina | 138 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois C | 138 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 138 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | BU | 138 | 0 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis B | 138 | 0 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 138 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Dartmouth A | 138 | 0 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Northwestern A | 138 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern B | 138 | 0 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 138 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 138 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 138 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech B | 138 | 0 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 138 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 138 | 0 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | NYU C | 138 | 0 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 138 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 138 | 0 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | George Washington B | 138 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Vassar A | 138 | 0 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Haverford B | 138 | 0 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | Penn B | 138 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 138 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 138 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 138 | 0 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell D | 138 | 0 |