The protagonist of a series by this author acquires “some landscapes by Hunt, Sully, and Hart” to begin his massive art collection after his marriage to Lillian Semple. A novel by this author ends with a “souvenir” that echoes its opening chapter by following a family of street preachers at dusk on a summer night. The railcar tycoon Charles Yerkes was fictionalized as Frank Cowperwood (“cooper-wood”) in this author’s Trilogy of Desire. In a novel by this author, a hit-and-run by the bellhop Sparser forces the protagonist to flee from Kansas City to Chicago, then Lycurgus, New York. The murder of Grace Brown inspired a novel by this author in which Roberta Alden is hit with a camera and drowns in a lake, leading to the execution of Clyde Griffiths. For 10 points, name this author of An American Tragedy. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.67 | 
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.33 | 
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.00 | 
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 90.50 | 
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 96.17 | 
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.00 | 
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 120.40 | 
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 117.80 | 
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.00 | 
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 88.50 | 
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 117.75 | 
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 109.33 | 
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 128.00 | 
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 54 | 10 | 
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago A | 59 | -5 | 
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Rutgers A | 59 | -5 | 
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF C | 61 | 10 | 
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 64 | 10 | 
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Brown A | 64 | 10 | 
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 64 | 10 | 
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty A | 67 | 10 | 
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Maryland A | 67 | 10 | 
| Ryan Sun | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 68 | 10 | 
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missouri | 69 | 10 | 
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Case Western B | 70 | 10 | 
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago B | 70 | 10 | 
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Chicago C | 70 | 10 | 
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 70 | 10 | 
| Nick Smemoe | UNC D | South Carolina | 71 | 10 | 
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 76 | 10 | 
| William Orr | Yale A | NYU A | 82 | 10 | 
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial B | 89 | 10 | 
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Indiana B | 90 | 10 | 
| Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 92 | 10 | 
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Kenyon | 92 | 10 | 
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Stanford B | 94 | 10 | 
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 96 | 10 | 
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 96 | 10 | 
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 96 | -5 | 
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Bristol | 96 | 10 | 
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Durham | 96 | 10 | 
| William Groger | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 98 | 10 | 
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Georgetown B | 102 | 10 | 
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 113 | 10 | 
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Iowa | 115 | 10 | 
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge C | 116 | 10 | 
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | BU | 121 | 10 | 
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 123 | 10 | 
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 128 | 10 | 
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 128 | 10 | 
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge E | 128 | 10 | 
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 128 | 10 | 
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 131 | 10 | 
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 137 | -5 | 
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan State | 138 | 10 | 
| Ivan Karp | UCLA | Claremont B | 139 | 10 | 
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Florida B | 139 | 10 | 
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Carnegie Mellon A | 139 | 10 | 
| Sai Subramanian | Case Western A | Carnegie Mellon B | 139 | 10 | 
| Catherine Major | Wake Forest | UNC C | 139 | 0 | 
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WashU A | 139 | 10 | 
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois C | 139 | 0 | 
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Missoui S&T | 139 | 10 | 
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | UMass Boston | 139 | 10 | 
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 139 | 10 | 
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Tufts A | 139 | 10 | 
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 139 | 10 | 
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 139 | 10 | 
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 139 | 0 | 
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 139 | 0 | 
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 139 | 0 | 
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Imperial A | 139 | 10 | 
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Southampton A | 139 | 10 | 
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Warwick A | 139 | 10 | 
| Eva Lettiere-Roberts | George Washington A | George Washington B | 139 | 0 | 
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | John Jay College | 139 | 10 | 
| Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Vassar A | 139 | 10 | 
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | George Washington A | 139 | 0 | 
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 139 | 0 | 
| Danny Cutbill | RIT B | Cornell D | 139 | 0 |