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 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 51 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto J | McGill C | 51 | -5 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Yale B | 51 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Tennessee A | 51 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 51 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 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 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 67 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto D | Toronto E | 67 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 67 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington B | 69 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western Ontario | 71 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | MSU A | 72 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 72 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 83 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt C | 84 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 84 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | BU | 84 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois B | 85 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Liberty B | 85 | 10 |
| Wyatt Roder | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 85 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | USC | 86 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | BC B | 86 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Stanford C | 86 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 98 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 98 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 104 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 104 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Chicago D | 104 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Tufts A | 104 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Penn B | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 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 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 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 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | MIT B | 107 | 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 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 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 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF A | 121 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | Roanoke | 121 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill C | Toronto J | 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 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 123 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Stanford B | 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 |