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 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU D | 64 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis Wilson | Harvard | 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 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 95 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana A | 95 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto I | 102 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 104 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 109 | -5 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland D | 109 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU D | 112 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois B | 112 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 112 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 115 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 119 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 119 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | ERAU B | 119 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 119 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | MSU A | 121 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 121 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 121 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech 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 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt C | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 130 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | British Columbia C | 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 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCI | 130 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 130 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 130 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 131 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 131 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 131 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 131 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Williams | 132 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 132 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 132 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | Georgetown B | 132 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 133 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Cornell-UG | 133 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 133 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Yale B | 133 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Manchester B | Bristol A | 133 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 133 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 134 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 136 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 136 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 136 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto E | 138 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 138 | -5 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 139 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 141 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 141 | 10 |
| Jack Doyle | Catholic University | Penn B | 141 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 142 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 142 | 0 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | UCF A | 142 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF A | 142 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon 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 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 142 | 0 |
| Nicholas Enbar-Salo | Bowdoin B | Brown B | 142 | 0 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 142 | 0 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Queen's 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 |