111 workers who built this structure recounted their experiences in a series of letters discussed by a Julie Greene book and the documentary Box 25. The existence of a secret plan to destroy this structure was confirmed by the autobiography America’s Prisoner. People who died in 1964 riots that tore down the “Fence of Shame” around this structure were commemorated on Martyrs Day. It’s not a tower, but Gustave Eiffel was prosecuted in a bribery scandal during an unsuccessful attempt to build this structure. Walter Reed’s medical advancements controlling yellow fever enabled the construction of this structure, which the Torrijos–Carter treaties transferred from US control in 1999. For 10 points, what man-made waterway connects the Caribbean to the Pacific through a namesake Central American country? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 65.20 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.67 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 31% | 93.54 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 94.17 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 87.43 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 92.80 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 94.64 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 95.20 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 79.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 104.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 88.58 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 92.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 7% | 96.21 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 101.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Michigan A | 24 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | McGill C | 34 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 39 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Mason A | 39 | -5 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol A | Edinburgh B | 42 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 44 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 46 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McGill A | 54 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Bowdoin B | 54 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 54 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 57 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 57 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UF C | 57 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan C | 57 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McGill B | 57 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UTD A | 61 | -5 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | North Carolina B | 62 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 62 | -5 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Northwestern A | 62 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 62 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 62 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Vassar A | 62 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester A | 64 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 66 | -5 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 66 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 69 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 69 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Chicago B | 69 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Clemson A | 71 | -5 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 71 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 71 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | WashU A | 73 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Waterloo | 74 | -5 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McMaster A | 75 | -5 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UF E | 75 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | OSU C | CWRU A | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 75 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSB | 76 | -5 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Arizona State A | 76 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Maryland B | 77 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 77 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Penn A | 78 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Tufts A | 78 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 79 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto K | 79 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | CWRU B | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 79 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Princeton A | 79 | -5 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Purdue A | 82 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | UCLA B | 83 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 83 | -5 |
| Gabriel Dodds—Captain | Liberty C | Virginia B | 83 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 83 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | FSU | 83 | -5 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 83 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 83 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 83 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 83 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 83 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 83 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 85 | 10 |
| Marin Burg | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 85 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 87 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Clemson B | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 87 | 10 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 87 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 87 | -5 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 87 | -5 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville A | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Brown C | 90 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 90 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph A | 90 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 90 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Durham B | 90 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota B | 91 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 92 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Arizona State B | 93 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 93 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | CWRU D | 93 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Chicago D | 93 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 93 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 93 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 93 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 93 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Catholic University | 94 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Truman State | 95 | 10 |
| Adam Zhang | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 96 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCLA A | 96 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | North Carolina C | 96 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | UMBC A | 96 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason C | 96 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 96 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 96 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 96 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | ESF | 96 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 96 | 10 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | BC B | 96 | -5 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick A | Southampton B | 98 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 98 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 99 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Indiana B | 99 | -5 |
| Adam Bentley | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 99 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 99 | -5 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 100 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | LSE B | 100 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Southampton A | 100 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | St. Thomas | 103 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | WashU D | 104 | 10 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 104 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 106 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 106 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 106 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 106 | 10 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | McMaster B | 106 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 106 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 107 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 109 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins C | 112 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | South Carolina A | 118 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 121 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Liberty A | 121 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto A | 121 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia B | 121 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | Toronto I | 124 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | NYU B | 124 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 125 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn B | 125 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Alberta B | 125 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 125 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 125 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 125 | 10 |
| Graham Price | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 125 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 125 | 10 |
| Alex Feller | Minnesota C | Iowa State | 125 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 125 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Queen's B | 125 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 125 | 10 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | Amherst B | 125 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 125 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 139 | 10 |