An author with this surname drew on the Boko Haram schoolgirl kidnappings in her 2019 final novel Girl, wrote about Cait and Baba in a trilogy beginning with The Country Girls, and had the first name Edna. In a novel by an author with this assumed surname, fourteen one-legged men attempt to prevent the hanging of a nameless man. A press specializing in experimental fiction is named after a novel by an author with this surname that features Saint Augustine and James Joyce. A man created by that author with this surname kills Mathers with a spade and uses a cash box containing omnium to write commentaries on the philosopher De Selby. For 10 points, the Irish modernist author of The Dalkey Archive and The Third Policeman shares what surname with a member of the Thought Police from 1984? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 126.50 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 137.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 125.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.67 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 138.67 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 133.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 135.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 127.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 67% | 0% | 11% | 94.67 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 139.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Cornell B | 30 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Maryland A | 36 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Duke | 36 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 88 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 103 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 111 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | Florida B | 111 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Illinois A | 111 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago B | 114 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 116 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Missoui S&T | 117 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 117 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 118 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | Liberty C | 126 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCLA | 126 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 126 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | WashU A | 126 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 127 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | Alberta | 129 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois C | 131 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 132 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 132 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Case Western A | 136 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 136 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Dartmouth A | 137 | -5 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | UNC C | 138 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Harvard B | 138 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 138 | -5 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 138 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Kenyon | 139 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 139 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 139 | 0 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Ohio State A | 139 | 0 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Michigan D | 139 | 0 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Michigan State | 139 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | South Carolina | 139 | 0 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina | Liberty A | 139 | 0 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford B | 139 | 0 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | NYU B | 139 | 0 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Columbia C | 139 | 10 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington A | Penn B | 139 | 0 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | George Washington A | 139 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF A | 139 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Cornell C | 139 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 139 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 139 | 0 |
| Adam Hermann | Claremont B | UCSD | 139 | 0 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 139 | 0 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Florida State A | 139 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Brown A | 139 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Tufts A | 139 | 0 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis A | 139 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Brandeis B | 139 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 139 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech A | 139 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 139 | 0 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 139 | 0 |
| Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Haverford A | 139 | 0 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford A | George Washington B | 139 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | John Jay College | 139 | 0 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Indiana B | 139 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 139 | 10 |