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 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UF C | 57 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 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 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 62 | 10 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | North Carolina B | 62 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 62 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Vassar A | 62 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 62 | -5 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Northwestern 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 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 69 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Chicago B | 69 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 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 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UF E | 75 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | OSU C | CWRU A | 75 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McMaster A | 75 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 77 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Maryland B | 77 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Princeton A | 79 | -5 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 79 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Purdue A | 82 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | FSU | 83 | -5 |
| Gabriel Dodds—Captain | Liberty C | Virginia B | 83 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 83 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 83 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 83 | -5 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | UCLA B | 83 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 83 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 83 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 83 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 83 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 83 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 85 | 10 |
| Marin Burg | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 85 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville A | 89 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 90 | -5 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 90 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Durham B | 90 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph A | 90 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Brown C | 90 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota B | 91 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 92 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 93 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | CWRU D | 93 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 93 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Chicago D | 93 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Arizona State B | 93 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 93 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 93 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 93 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Catholic University | 94 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Truman State | 95 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 95 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 96 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | ESF | 96 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 96 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 96 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 96 | 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 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | BC B | 96 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 98 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick A | Southampton B | 98 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 99 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Indiana B | 99 | -5 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 99 | -5 |
| Adam Bentley | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 99 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 106 | 10 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | McMaster B | 106 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 106 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 106 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 106 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 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 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Liberty A | 121 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto A | 121 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia B | 121 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 121 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | Toronto I | 124 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | NYU B | 124 | 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 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | Amherst B | 125 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Queen's B | 125 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 125 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 125 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 125 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 125 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn B | 125 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 125 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Alberta B | 125 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 139 | 10 |