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 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 51 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Tennessee A | 51 | -5 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Yale B | 51 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 51 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 51 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia C | 52 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCI | 52 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | WashU D | 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 |
| 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 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 72 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 72 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Missouri B | 72 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois C | 77 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | OSU B | CWRU B | 83 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | CWRU C | 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 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 83 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 83 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 83 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt C | 84 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | BU | 84 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 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 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Stanford C | 86 | -5 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | BC B | 86 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | USC | 86 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 86 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 104 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Tufts A | 104 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 104 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Penn B | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 104 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Chicago D | 104 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 105 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason C | 105 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | Maryland C | 105 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | ERAU B | 106 | 10 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF C | 106 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton B | 106 | 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 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 107 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 107 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 107 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 107 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | MIT B | 107 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 107 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 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 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 109 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Chicago A | 110 | 10 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Berkeley D | 110 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford 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 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville B | 121 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Roanoke | 121 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF D | 122 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 122 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 123 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Stanford B | 123 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto K | 124 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame A | 124 | 10 |
| William Barash | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brown C | 124 | 0 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Chicago C | 124 | 10 |