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 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McMaster A | 30 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 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 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 40 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 40 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | SIUE | 42 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Tufts B | 45 | 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 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 46 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 46 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 46 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 46 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 46 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia A | 48 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Penn B | 80 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 80 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Sheffield 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 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 94 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 94 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Toronto I | 95 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill C | 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 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Clemson A | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Southampton B | 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 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 99 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 99 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Liberty C | 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 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Chicago D | 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 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 102 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 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 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 102 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FSU | 103 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Manchester B | 103 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 103 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 106 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Lehigh A | 106 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 135 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | ERAU A | 135 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 135 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 135 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 135 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Waterloo | 135 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Queen's B | 135 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins B | 135 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 135 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |