The son of a Lebanese businessman claims that he is adapting a novel by this author for theatre to hide his relationship with Nick Guest in Alan Hollinghurst’s novel The Line of Beauty. A novel by this author ends with the woman’s rights orator Verena Tarrant being carried out of a hall with tears, “not the last she was destined to shed,” in her eyes. The protagonist of a novel by this author first meets her aunt Lydia in the library of her grandmother’s house in Albany. Pansy is revealed to be the daughter of Madame Merle in a novel by this author in which the protagonist rejects the proposals of Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood before marrying Gilbert Osmond in Rome. For 10 points, name this author of The Bostonians who also created Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 101.60 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 25% | 120.27 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 134.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 122.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 29% | 117.86 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 115.13 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.25 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.33 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 117.00 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 131.25 |
| UK | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 138.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 136.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 26 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 30 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 32 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Queen's A | 38 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue A | 45 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCLA C | 47 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Stanford B | 49 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 50 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Missouri B | 51 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto C | 64 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Harvard | 64 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU D | 64 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Notre Dame E | 69 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Guelph A | 77 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 77 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington B | 80 | -5 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Brown A | 87 | -5 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 93 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 93 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana A | 95 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 95 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto I | 102 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 104 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland D | 109 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 109 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 112 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU D | 112 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois B | 112 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 115 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | ERAU B | 119 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 119 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 119 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 121 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | MSU A | 121 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 121 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 121 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | Liberty B | 122 | -5 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | VCU A | 124 | -5 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | CWRU C | 125 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | McGill A | 129 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCI | 130 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Waterloo | 130 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | Melbourne B | 130 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | ERAU A | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 130 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU B | 130 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt C | 130 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 130 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | British Columbia C | 130 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 130 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 131 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 131 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 131 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 131 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 132 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 132 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Williams | 132 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 132 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 133 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Cornell-UG | 133 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 133 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 133 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale B | 133 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 133 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 134 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 136 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 136 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 136 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 138 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto E | 138 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 139 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | Penn B | 141 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 141 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 141 | 10 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 142 | 0 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Queen's B | 142 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Washington A | 142 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Penn A | 142 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 142 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Chicago C | 142 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Chicago D | 142 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 142 | 0 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto B | 142 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | McGill C | 142 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto F | 142 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Western Ontario | 142 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | UCF A | 142 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF A | 142 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 142 | 0 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Brown B | 142 | 0 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | MIT B | 142 | 10 |
| Rohan Vittal | Brown A | Tufts A | 142 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | UF D | 142 | 0 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | UF E | 142 | 0 |
| Aryan Pathak | UF C | USF | 142 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF C | 142 | 0 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 142 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 142 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Virginia A | 142 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | British Columbia D | 142 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 142 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 142 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | RIT A | 142 | 0 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Binghamton B | 142 | 0 |