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 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU A | 47 | -5 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | MSU B | 47 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Johns Hopkins C | 50 | -5 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland C | 50 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere | George Washington A | George Mason A | 50 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | MIT A | 50 | -5 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | UF E | 50 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Birmingham A | 50 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | McGill D | 76 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Imperial A | 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 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland A | 81 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Georgetown B | 81 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | UTD B | 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 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Nebraska | 82 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU C | 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 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Amherst A | 86 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Kenyon 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 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Brown C | 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 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Carleton | 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 |
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Manchester A | 102 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford C | 102 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | Claremont Scripps | 102 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 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 |
| Nghia Khau | VCU A | Penn A | 104 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina C | 104 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | McGill C | 105 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | UF A | 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 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU C | 105 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | OSU B | 105 | 10 |
| Jonah Chancio | James Madison | Tennessee B | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Tusculum | 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 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | UCSC | 107 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Tufts A | 107 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Rochester | 107 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU A | 107 | 10 |
| Heidi Moyer | ERAU A | UF D | 108 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield B | 108 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto G | 108 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Lehigh A | 108 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Minnesota C | 108 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | British Columbia C | British Columbia B | 108 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 108 | 10 |
| Taylor Salazar | Roanoke | Clemson A | 108 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Alberta B | 108 | -5 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Ohio | 108 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Mississippi State A | 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 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Tufts B | 113 | -5 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto F | 113 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 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 |
| 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 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Wisconsin | 117 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 117 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | North Carolina A | 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 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | UMBC A | 132 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Vassar A | 132 | 10 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill B | Queen's B | 133 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 133 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | Catholic University | 133 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Amherst B | 133 | 0 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brandeis Orlando | 133 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Alberta | 133 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | ESF | 133 | 0 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Binghamton B | 133 | 0 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Northwestern C | 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 |