A medieval travel journal from this country was written by an anonymous “Lady” whose aunt, known only as a noble’s “mother,” authored The Gossamer Years. A book from this country opens “In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful” and features the section “Embarrassing Things.” Ivan Morris translated that book and one retitled after the same “Bridge of Dreams” that titles a chapter of a novel from this country. A possibly autobiographical character in a novel from this country is kidnapped by the protagonist after the daughter of the Minister of the Left dies. The blank chapter “Vanished into the Clouds” appears in that novel from this country, often considered the first modern novel. For 10 points, name this country home to the authors of The Pillow Book and The Tale of Genji. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 48.60 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 71.50 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 90.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 90.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.36 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 80.80 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.67 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 78.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.63 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.29 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 105.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Minnesota A | 12 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Brown B | 16 | -5 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 24 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Penn A | 24 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 25 | 10 |
| Shaphnah McKenzie | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 26 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 29 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 29 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 30 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McMaster A | 30 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Indiana A | 36 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU B | 38 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | LSE B | 38 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 40 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 40 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Vassar A | 40 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | SIUE | 42 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Tufts B | 45 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago B | 46 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 46 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 46 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 46 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 46 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU A | 46 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 46 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 46 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 46 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 46 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 48 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia A | 48 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Rose State | 48 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Maryland D | 49 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 49 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas B | 49 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 51 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 51 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 57 | -5 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | UTD A | 60 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | George Mason B | 62 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 68 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | NYU B | 68 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Michigan B | 69 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 70 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 70 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Durham B | 70 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Edinburgh B | 71 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 73 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | St. Thomas | 73 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA C | 77 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Williams | 77 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Tufts A | 78 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Penn B | 80 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 80 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 80 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 82 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 82 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA D | 84 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Washington A | 85 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 88 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Kenyon B | 88 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster C | 94 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | UF A | 94 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 94 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 94 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill C | 95 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Clemson A | 95 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 95 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 95 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | UTD B | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Southampton B | 95 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Toronto I | 95 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 98 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 98 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 98 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Liberty C | 99 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 99 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 99 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 100 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 101 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan C | 101 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 102 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 102 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Chicago D | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Purdue B | 102 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Amherst B | 102 | -5 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 102 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 102 | 10 |
| Ai Xing | Minnesota B | Nebraska | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 102 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Cambridge C | 102 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Cambridge D | 102 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FSU | 103 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 103 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Manchester B | 103 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Lehigh A | 106 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State B | 106 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 106 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 109 | -5 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF B | 109 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | William Woods | 109 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Clemson B | 111 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 113 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Michigan D | 114 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | WashU C | 115 | 10 |
| Juliette Flatau | Imperial C | Southampton A | 116 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Queen's A | 118 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins C | 118 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 119 | -5 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 125 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | MSU B | 129 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Rochester | 133 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | North Carolina C | 134 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Waterloo | 135 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Queen's B | 135 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 135 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 135 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins B | 135 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 135 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | ERAU A | 135 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 135 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 135 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |