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 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU D | 64 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Harvard | 64 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto C | 64 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Notre Dame E | 69 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 77 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Guelph 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 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 119 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 119 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 119 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 121 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | MSU A | 121 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 121 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 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 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Waterloo | 130 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | Melbourne B | 130 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | ERAU A | 130 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU B | 130 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | British Columbia C | 130 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCI | 130 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt C | 130 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 130 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 130 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 131 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 131 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 131 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 131 | 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 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 132 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Cornell-UG | 133 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale B | 133 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 133 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 133 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 133 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 133 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 134 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 136 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 136 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 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 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 141 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | Penn B | 141 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 141 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | British Columbia D | 142 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 142 | 10 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 142 | 0 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 142 | 10 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | Virginia A | 142 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Washington A | 142 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Penn A | 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 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Queen's B | 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 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 142 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Chicago C | 142 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Chicago D | 142 | 10 |