An author with this surname began his series The Great War of White Men with a satire about an escaped POW pretending to be a deserter, The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Another author with this surname wrote a novel in which the title woman is discovered not to be the aristocrat “Christiana van Boolen,” leading her to plan a robbery with the veteran Ferdinand. That author with this surname committed suicide in Brazil the day after he finished a memoir reflecting on Hitler’s rise to power, The World of Yesterday. In a novella by an author with this surname, imprisonment by the Gestapo leads Dr. B to split his personality into “White” and “Black” in order to play chess against himself. For 10 points, The Royal Game is by an Austrian author with what surname and the first name Stefan? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.25 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 121.33 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 132.67 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 135.50 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 126.67 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 106.56 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 0% | 111.83 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Southampton A | 16 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland A | 55 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU B | 62 | -5 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | LSE | 72 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | NYU B | 75 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago A | 79 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 80 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge C | 80 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina | 83 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Notre Dame C | 86 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 87 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Indiana B | 89 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Oxford C | 89 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Imperial B | 89 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | Texas B | 92 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Northwestern B | 97 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 113 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin B | 118 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 121 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame A | 122 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | UNC D | 123 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Brandeis A | 123 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | NYU A | 123 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 123 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 126 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Durham | 126 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 133 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Tufts A | 139 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | George Washington A | 139 | 10 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol | Cambridge D | 139 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | Columbia C | 139 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | Claremont B | 140 | 0 |
| Aidan Deshong | Claremont B | Claremont A | 140 | 0 |
| Crow He | UNC B | Liberty B | 140 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Chicago D | 140 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Illinois C | 140 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Missouri | 140 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Missoui S&T | 140 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Carleton | 140 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 140 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Dartmouth A | 140 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Georgetown B | 140 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Alabama A | 140 | 0 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Cambridge A | 140 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 140 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Cambridge B | 140 | 0 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Manchester | 140 | 0 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Southampton B | 140 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Valencia A | 140 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 140 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | UMass Boston | 140 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard B | Brandeis B | 140 | 0 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Harvard B | 140 | 0 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Iowa | 140 | 10 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial A | NYU C | 140 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Vassar A | 140 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Johns Hopkins A | 140 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn A | 140 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell D | 140 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | ESF A | 140 | 0 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell C | 140 | 0 |