A work by this composer is paired with a lecture about “Humor in Music” in an educational album by Leonard Bernstein. Wind trills representing a clock striking 7 a.m. introduce a triple fugue in a piece by this composer built from themes depicting the moods of a mother, father, and child. Herbert von Karajan’s recording of a massive, 22-section work by this composer was the first to be pressed on CD. Tubas playing in parallel fifths represent critics of this composer in the “adversaries” movement of an orchestral work that ends with “The Hero’s Retirement From This World and Completion.” A piece by this composer begins with an ascending “C G C” trumpet fanfare depicting a sunrise. For 10 points, name this German composer of tone poems like An Alpine Symphony and Also Sprach Zarathustra. ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 125.50 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 117.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 118.75 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.00 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 97.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.60 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 109.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 106.75 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 104.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 83.57 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 112.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruchir Kodihalli | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon A | 20 | -5 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Harvard B | 28 | -5 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Valencia A | 29 | -5 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Rutgers A | 31 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC | UW A | 32 | -5 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 38 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 48 | -5 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 50 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | MIT A | 50 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Penn A | 50 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | George Washington B | 51 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Northwestern A | 54 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Cambridge A | 62 | -5 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | ASU | 65 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 68 | -5 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT A | 70 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 72 | -5 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Missouri | 80 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | WashU B | 83 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | UW B | Alberta | 83 | 10 |
| Sarah Henderson | Cambridge C | Durham | 93 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 94 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 95 | 10 |
| Jason Qin | Columbia B | John Jay College | 99 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | William & Mary | 101 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Warwick A | 109 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech D | 110 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | BU | 110 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 110 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 111 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Brandeis A | 111 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Case Western A | 112 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 112 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 112 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 112 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Yale A | 112 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Oxford B | 113 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan D | 113 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern B | 113 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 113 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 113 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 114 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Georgetown A | 115 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | UCF B | 116 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Kenyon | 116 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 116 | -5 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 116 | -5 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Bristol | 116 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Warwick B | 116 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 116 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 116 | -5 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 116 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell D | 116 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Chicago A | 116 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 116 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Brandeis B | 117 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | UNC D | 118 | -5 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois C | 119 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty C | 123 | 10 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | Penn B | 130 | 10 |
| Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 130 | 0 |
| Nathan Whittington | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech B | 132 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 133 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 135 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 135 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech A | 135 | 10 |
| Ruth Ní Mhuircheartaigh | Cambridge E | NYU C | 135 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 135 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Vassar A | 135 | 0 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | UNC C | 135 | 0 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | South Carolina | 135 | 0 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC D | UNC B | 135 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UBC | 135 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | ESF A | 135 | 10 |
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | Duke | 135 | 0 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 135 | 10 |