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 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Vassar A | 40 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 40 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 40 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | SIUE | 42 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Tufts B | 45 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 46 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU 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 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 46 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 46 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 46 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 46 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 46 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | NYU B | 68 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 68 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Michigan B | 69 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 70 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 70 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Durham B | 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 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 80 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Penn 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 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Kenyon B | 88 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 88 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 93 | 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 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster C | 94 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Southampton B | 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 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill C | 95 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Toronto I | 95 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | UTD B | 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 |
| 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 Siegler | Toronto D | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 100 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan C | 101 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 101 | 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 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 102 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Purdue B | 102 | 10 |
| Ai Xing | Minnesota B | Nebraska | 102 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Amherst B | 102 | -5 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 102 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 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 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 106 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State B | 106 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins C | 118 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Queen's A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 135 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 135 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Waterloo | 135 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Queen's B | 135 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 135 | 10 |