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 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McGill B | 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 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UTD A | 61 | -5 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 62 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Vassar A | 62 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Northwestern A | 62 | 10 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | North Carolina B | 62 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 62 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 62 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester A | 64 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 66 | -5 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 66 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 69 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 69 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Chicago B | 69 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 71 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 71 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Clemson A | 71 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 75 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McMaster A | 75 | -5 |
| 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 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Tufts A | 78 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Penn A | 78 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 79 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | CWRU B | 79 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Princeton A | 79 | -5 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto K | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 79 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 83 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | FSU | 83 | -5 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 83 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 83 | -5 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 83 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 83 | -5 |
| Gabriel Dodds—Captain | Liberty C | Virginia B | 83 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 83 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 83 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 87 | -5 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 87 | 10 |
| 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 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 87 | -5 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville A | 89 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph A | 90 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Brown C | 90 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 93 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 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 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Catholic University | 94 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Truman State | 95 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 95 | 10 |
| Adam Zhang | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 96 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCLA A | 96 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 96 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 96 | 10 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | BC B | 96 | -5 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | ESF | 96 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 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 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 96 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick A | Southampton B | 98 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 98 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 99 | -5 |
| Adam Bentley | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 99 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 99 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Indiana 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 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | McMaster B | 106 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 106 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 106 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 106 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 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 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia B | 121 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto A | 121 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Liberty A | 121 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | NYU B | 124 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | Toronto I | 124 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 125 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Queen's B | 125 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 125 | 10 |
| Graham Price | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 125 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 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 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 125 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 125 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn B | 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 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 125 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 139 | 10 |