This author wrote a story in which a son recounts how his classmate was spanked because the teacher made him color with red crayons instead of green. That story is referenced in this author’s memoir Life Among the Savages when a teacher says, “We don’t have any Charles in the kindergarten.” In a novel by this author, the protagonist wonders “why don’t they stop me?” before driving her car into a tree. In that novel by this author, John Montague investigates messages saying “Help Eleanor come home” in the title location. At the end of this author’s most famous story, Tessie Hutchinson screams “it isn’t fair, it isn’t right” before being stoned to death during the title event. For 10 points, name this author of The Haunting of Hill House and “The Lottery.” ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 114.08 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 17% | 91.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.86 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 103.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 36% | 92.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 107.20 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 100.75 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 107.67 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 111.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 87.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 97.13 |
| UK | Main | Y | 13 | 85% | 0% | 8% | 100.27 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 106.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Alabama B | 15 | 10 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto E | Toronto H | 23 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Clemenceau | 26 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Tulsa | 26 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge A | Bristol A | 42 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | MSU B | 47 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU A | 47 | -5 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | UF E | 50 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 50 | -5 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland C | 50 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Birmingham A | 50 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | George Mason A | 50 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | MIT A | 50 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BU | 53 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins A | 58 | 10 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill A | Toronto J | 65 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Clemson B | 66 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley F | 71 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU D | 71 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Texas B | 72 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown A | 74 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Imperial A | 76 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | McGill D | 76 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | McGill B | 77 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Missouri B | 78 | -5 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Toronto A | 79 | -5 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Iowa | 79 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Georgetown B | 81 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland A | 81 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | UTD B | 81 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 82 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley B | 82 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU C | 82 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | McMaster A | 82 | -5 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Nebraska | 82 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia B | 83 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia A | 84 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Princeton A | 86 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Kenyon A | 86 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Amherst A | 86 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Rose State | 88 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina B | 90 | 10 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Rutgers C | 98 | -5 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Guelph B | 100 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | FIU | 101 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | Kenyon B | 101 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Bruin A | 101 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Pitt B | 101 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brown C | 101 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Scripps | 102 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | MIT B | 102 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 102 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Carleton | 102 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech A | Huntsville B | 102 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | UAB A | 102 | 10 |
| Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 102 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Cambridge C | 102 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 102 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington B | 102 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Simon Fraser | 102 | 10 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Manchester A | 102 | 10 |
| Nghia Khau | VCU A | Penn A | 104 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina C | 104 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | UF A | 105 | 10 |
| Jonah Chancio | James Madison | Tennessee B | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Tusculum | 105 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikołajczuk | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 105 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill C | 105 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Lehigh B | 105 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Columbia C | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU C | 105 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | UTD A | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee A | 105 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | OSU B | 105 | 10 |
| Lance Hulme | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Wilson | 105 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | UCSC | 107 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU A | 107 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Tufts A | 107 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Rochester | 107 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto G | 108 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | UF D | 108 | 10 |
| Taylor Salazar | Roanoke | Clemson A | 108 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 108 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Lehigh A | 108 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota C | 108 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Ohio | 108 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Mississippi State A | 108 | -5 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia B | 108 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Alberta B | 108 | -5 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield B | 108 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Mason C | 109 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | Truman State | 110 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | Maryland D | 111 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 111 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto F | 113 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 113 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Tufts B | 113 | -5 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Queen's A | 114 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto Metropolitan | 115 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Liberty B | 116 | 10 |
| Shaynee Ruffle | Toronto I | McMaster B | 117 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | Melbourne A | 117 | -5 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 117 | 0 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | WashU B | 117 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 117 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Wisconsin | 117 | 10 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn B | Alabama A | 117 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | North Carolina A | 117 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Bowdoin B | 120 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | Oxford B | 123 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Penn B | 127 | -5 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | LSE B | 129 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | UMBC A | 132 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Vassar A | 132 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Waterloo | 133 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Toronto E | 133 | 10 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | FSU | 133 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | USF | 133 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | Melbourne B | 133 | 0 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Catholic University | 133 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | City St George's A | 133 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | ESF | 133 | 0 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Binghamton B | 133 | 0 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Queen's B | 133 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 133 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville A | 133 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge D | Bristol B | 133 | 0 |
| Jacob Taylor | Bristol B | Cambridge D | 133 | 0 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Amherst B | 133 | 0 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brandeis Orlando | 133 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | BC B | 133 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Cornell-UG | 133 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Wilson | Bowdoin A | 133 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 133 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern C | 133 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Durham A | 133 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Lancaster A | 133 | 0 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Southampton B | 133 | 0 |