Question
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■
Summary
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 |
Buzzes
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 |