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 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | MIT A | 50 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Xu | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt 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 |
| Alan Fan | UW B | Alberta | 83 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU A | WashU B | 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 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 110 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech D | 110 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | BU | 110 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 111 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Brandeis A | 111 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 112 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 112 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 112 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Case Western A | 112 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Yale A | 112 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago B | 113 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 113 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern B | 113 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan D | 113 | 10 |
| Nathan Easow | Manchester | Oxford B | 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 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 116 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Chicago A | 116 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 116 | -5 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Bristol | 116 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 116 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 116 | -5 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell D | 116 | -5 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 116 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Kenyon | 116 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 116 | -5 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Warwick B | 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 |
| Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 130 | 0 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | Penn B | 130 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | Duke | 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 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech A | 135 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Vassar A | 135 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | ESF A | 135 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 135 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 135 | 10 |
| Ruth Ní Mhuircheartaigh | Cambridge E | NYU C | 135 | 0 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 135 | 10 |