After bicycling 15 miles to swim in a river, two characters in this novel have sex, as implied by the line “this is how it was.” In this novel, a doctor interrupts a Christmas party with a long speech on Karl Marx, whom the doctor named his son after. A boy in this novel becomes a quiet loner after accidentally shooting his neighbor in the face with a BB gun. After a failed prom party in this novel, a tomboy feels music “boil inside her” as she listens to Beethoven’s Third. In this novel, the sudden erratic behavior of a slovenly Greek man results in his detention in a state asylum, where news of his death causes his deaf-mute best friend to shoot himself in the chest. For 10 points, characters like Jake Blount and Mick Kelly confide in John Singer in what novel by Carson McCullers? ■END■
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 125.67 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.50 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 147.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 140.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 134.50 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 130.78 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 0% | 114.17 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Indiana A | 25 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois B | 33 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Imperial A | 43 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland B | 48 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 57 | -5 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | LSE | 69 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Cornell B | 84 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 102 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | WashU B | 103 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU A | 115 | 10 |
| Amanda Zhao | Georgetown B | Notre Dame B | 120 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW B | 122 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Penn B | 123 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Illinois C | 126 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Purdue | 126 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 126 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Imperial B | 127 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | South Carolina | 129 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 136 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | UNC C | 146 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Cambridge A | 146 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Liberty C | 147 | 0 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | UNC D | 147 | 0 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Missoui S&T | 147 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | BU | 147 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard A | 147 | 10 |
| Daniel Ju | Harvard B | Tufts A | 147 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Iowa | 147 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 147 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 147 | 0 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 147 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield | Cambridge C | 147 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Southampton B | 147 | 0 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Southampton A | 147 | 0 |
| Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | Oxford B | 147 | 0 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Manchester | 147 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Bristol | 147 | 10 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Warwick B | 147 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Durham | 147 | 10 |
| Sasha Wertime | Haverford B | George Washington B | 147 | 0 |
| Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Maryland A | 147 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Rutgers A | 147 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Haverford B | 147 | 0 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Penn A | 147 | 0 |