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 |
| 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 119 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 119 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU B | 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 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 132 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 132 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 132 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Williams | 132 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 133 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 133 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale B | 133 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 133 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 133 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Cornell-UG | 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 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | Penn B | 141 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 141 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 141 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Penn A | 142 | 10 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 142 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 142 | 0 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Brown B | 142 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Chicago C | 142 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Chicago D | 142 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | MIT B | 142 | 10 |
| Rohan Vittal | Brown A | Tufts A | 142 | 10 |