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 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Birmingham A | 50 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | George Mason A | 50 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 50 | -5 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland C | 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 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | UTD B | 81 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Georgetown B | 81 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland A | 81 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley A | 82 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley B | 82 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | McMaster A | 82 | -5 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU C | 82 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Nebraska | 82 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia B | 83 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia A | 84 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Kenyon A | 86 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Princeton 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 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Pitt B | 101 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | Kenyon B | 101 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Bruin A | 101 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brown C | 101 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 102 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Scripps | 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 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Manchester A | 102 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | MIT B | 102 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington B | 102 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Simon Fraser | 102 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 102 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina C | 104 | 10 |
| Nghia Khau | VCU A | Penn A | 104 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill C | 105 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | UF A | 105 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | OSU B | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU C | 105 | 10 |
| Lance Hulme | Bowdoin A | Brandeis Wilson | 105 | -5 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Lehigh B | 105 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Columbia C | 105 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | UTD A | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee A | 105 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikołajczuk | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 105 | 10 |
| Jonah Chancio | James Madison | Tennessee B | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Tusculum | 105 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | UF D | 108 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota C | 108 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia B | 108 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto G | 108 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Lehigh A | 108 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Ohio | 108 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Mississippi State A | 108 | -5 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield B | 108 | -5 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 108 | 10 |
| Taylor Salazar | Roanoke | Clemson A | 108 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Alberta 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 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 113 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Tufts B | 113 | -5 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto F | 113 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Queen's A | 114 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto Metropolitan | 115 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | Liberty B | 116 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | Melbourne A | 117 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | North Carolina A | 117 | 10 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | WashU B | 117 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Wisconsin | 117 | 10 |
| Shaynee Ruffle | Toronto I | McMaster B | 117 | 10 |
| Lesley Kwarteng | Johns Hopkins C | Johns Hopkins B | 117 | 0 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 117 | 10 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn B | Alabama 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 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Vassar A | 132 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | UMBC A | 132 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Queen's B | 133 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 133 | 10 |
| Tinashe Sandy | USF | FSU | 133 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | USF | 133 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | Melbourne B | 133 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Waterloo | 133 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Toronto E | 133 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Catholic University | 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 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | City St George's A | 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 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Amherst B | 133 | 0 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brandeis Orlando | 133 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern C | 133 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | ESF | 133 | 0 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Binghamton B | 133 | 0 |