Edmund Waller’s poem “On a Girdle” invokes this thing in its final line after asking “Give me but what this ribbon bound.” A poem titled for this thing says “She’s all states, and all princes, I, / Nothing else is. / Princes do but play us; compared to this.” This physical thing is the focal object of the entire second stanza of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” This thing is asked to go chide “Late school boys and sour prentices” in a John Donne aubade titled for it. The final lines of “To His Coy Mistress” state that though a pair cannot make this thing “Stand still,” they can make it “run.” A sonnet whose first line ends with the word for this thing later states “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun.” For 10 points, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 says that a “mistress’ eyes are nothing like” what object? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 98.67 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 147.20 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 50% | 126.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 50% | 113.60 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.67 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 135.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 155.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 133.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 89.50 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 127.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 129.14 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 148.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech D | 34 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 69 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Indiana A | 69 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 69 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Oxford B | 69 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 72 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan State | 75 | -5 |
| Rosa Xia | Cornell B | Columbia C | 79 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Stanford B | 80 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | NYU C | 81 | -5 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Missouri | 86 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Wake Forest | 86 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missouri S&T | Chicago D | 87 | -5 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 90 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 100 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Indiana B | 103 | -5 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | WashU A | 104 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 105 | -5 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago A | 107 | -5 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Durham | 107 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Yale A | 109 | -5 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan D | 109 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas B | 111 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | UNC D | 112 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | TAMU | 113 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | John Jay College | 114 | 10 |
| Hannah Nieuwveld | Penn A | George Washington B | 114 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Vassar A | 114 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Wallace | Kenyon | Ohio State B | 114 | -5 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | UNC B | 114 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 114 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Louisville A | 114 | -5 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Ohio State A | 116 | 10 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC C | 116 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Purdue | 119 | -5 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 123 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Iowa | 126 | -5 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Winona State | 132 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Cornell C | 143 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Haverford B | 144 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 145 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCLA | 150 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown B | 150 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Duke | 152 | 10 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Cambridge C | 152 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Manchester | 152 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland B | Penn B | 153 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago B | 154 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell D | 154 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Liberty A | 154 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont A | 155 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Illinois B | 155 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 155 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa | Notre Dame B | 155 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Northwestern B | 155 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame A | 155 | 0 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington A | 155 | 0 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | NYU B | 155 | 0 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | Penn A | 155 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 155 | 0 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Binghamton A | 155 | 0 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Carnegie Mellon B | 155 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | Case Western B | Case Western A | 155 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Michigan A | 155 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Kenyon | 155 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 155 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC | UW B | 155 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas A | 155 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Vanderbilt A | 155 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Southampton B | 155 | 10 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | Liberty B | 155 | 0 |