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 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 29 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 29 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McMaster A | 30 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 30 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Indiana A | 36 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | LSE B | 38 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU 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 |
| 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 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 46 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU A | 46 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 46 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 46 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago B | 46 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 46 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 46 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Rose State | 48 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 48 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia A | 48 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 49 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas B | 49 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Maryland D | 49 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 51 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 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 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Durham B | 70 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 70 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 70 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Edinburgh B | 71 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | St. Thomas | 73 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 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 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 80 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 80 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Penn B | 80 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 82 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 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 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 94 | 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 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill C | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Southampton B | 95 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Clemson A | 95 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | UTD B | 95 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Toronto I | 95 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 95 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 95 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 98 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 98 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 98 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 99 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Liberty C | 99 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 102 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Chicago D | 102 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 103 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Manchester B | 103 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FSU | 103 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 106 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State B | 106 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Lehigh A | 106 | -5 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF B | 109 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | William Woods | 109 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 109 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 135 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 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 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins B | 135 | 10 |