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 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Penn A | 24 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 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 |
| 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 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 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 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 46 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU A | 46 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | NYU B | 68 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 68 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Michigan B | 69 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 70 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Durham B | 70 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 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 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 80 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Bristol 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 |
| 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 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 94 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 94 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster C | 94 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | UF A | 94 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill C | 95 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Toronto I | 95 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 95 | 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 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | UTD B | 95 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 98 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 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 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Manchester B | 103 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 103 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FSU | 103 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State B | 106 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 106 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Lehigh A | 106 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 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 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 135 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | ERAU A | 135 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 135 | 10 |