An author from this country intertwined scenes of Robert Browning in Venice with the lives of the main characters in the novel The Whirlpool. In one of 11 interviews conducted by Graeme Gibson with novelists from this country, Timothy Findley coined the name for one region in this country’s “Southern Gothic” literature. “Boy” Staunton causes a pregnant woman to go into premature labor in Fifth Business, a novel in this country’s Deptford Trilogy. An author from this country featured symposiums led by Professor Pieixoto as metafictional epilogues for two novels. While meeting outside of the “Ceremony” in a novel from this country, Offred plays Scrabble with the Commander. For 10 points, name this home country of the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 94.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 83.50 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 70.17 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.29 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 87.38 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.60 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 90.50 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 102.25 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 86.73 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 55.25 |
| UK | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | Claremont Scripps | 23 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 31 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Guelph A | 39 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | Carleton | 42 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Waterloo | 43 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Queen's A | 44 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto C | 45 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 49 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | McGill C | 51 | -5 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Tennessee A | 51 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 51 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Yale B | 51 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 51 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 51 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | WashU D | 52 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCI | 52 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia C | 52 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Toronto F | 53 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 59 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 60 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 60 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois A | Indiana A | 62 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Queen's B | 65 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Toronto E | 67 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 67 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 67 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington B | 69 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western Ontario | 71 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 72 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 72 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Missouri B | 72 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 72 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | MSU A | 72 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 72 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois C | 77 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 83 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 83 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | OSU B | CWRU B | 83 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | CWRU C | 83 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 83 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 83 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 83 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 83 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 83 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Brandeis Wilson | 83 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 84 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | BU | 84 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt C | 84 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Liberty B | 85 | 10 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 85 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois B | 85 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | USC | 86 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 86 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | BC B | 86 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Stanford C | 86 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 87 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 89 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago C | UIC | 89 | -5 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 96 | -5 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 98 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 98 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Penn B | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 104 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Tufts A | 104 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 104 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Chicago D | 104 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 104 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason C | 105 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Maryland C | 105 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 105 | -5 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | ERAU B | 106 | 10 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF C | 106 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton B | 106 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 107 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland D | 107 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU A | George Washington A | 107 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 107 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | MIT B | 107 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 107 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | Melbourne B | 107 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | ERAU A | 107 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 107 | -5 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 107 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 107 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 107 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 107 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 109 | 10 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley D | 110 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 110 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Chicago A | 110 | 10 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Missouri A | 120 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Toronto J | 121 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF A | 121 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Roanoke | 121 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville B | 121 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF D | 122 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 122 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Stanford B | 123 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 123 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto K | 124 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Chicago C | 124 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame A | 124 | 10 |
| William Barash | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown C | 124 | 0 |