A character in this book opens a box to find coals instead of a feather dropped by Gabriel during the Annunciation. In this book, a character marries Neerbal after being taught how to “put the devil back in Hell” by the monk Rustico. A poem by John Keats adapts a story in this book in which a woman cries every day over a pot of basil containing her lover’s severed head. In a different story in this collection, a man wins a woman’s affections after cooking his pet falcon for her as a meal. A nobleman pretends to murder his children to test the loyalties of his wife Griselda in this collection’s final story, one of several told by Dioneo over 10 days. For 10 points, Florentines fleeing the Black Death tell stories to each other in what collection by Giovanni Boccaccio? ■END■
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.83 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 85% | 0% | 15% | 105.55 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.63 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.80 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 93.80 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 102.25 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.75 |
| UK | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Rose State | 38 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | Claremont Scripps | 41 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 41 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Iowa State | 42 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Illinois A | 44 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Louisville A | 57 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto K | 62 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas A | 66 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Guelph A | 67 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 68 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 68 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 68 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 68 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Southampton B | 68 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Warwick A | 68 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UCO | 69 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Nebraska | 69 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina B | 70 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern A | 70 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 70 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Chicago A | 70 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 70 | -5 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 70 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia Tech B | 70 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn A | 72 | 10 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto E | Waterloo | 74 | -5 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill B | 77 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rowan A | 77 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | McGill A | 82 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Purdue A | 82 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto G | 85 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | St. Thomas | 87 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rutgers B | 90 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 90 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | UCLA C | 93 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 93 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Liberty B | 93 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Iowa | 93 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 95 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Clemson B | 95 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 99 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Huntsville A | 108 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 108 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 110 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Vanderbilt A | 110 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto I | 111 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McMaster A | 111 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 111 | -5 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Northwestern B | 113 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 113 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 116 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 119 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Sewanee A | 122 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McGill C | 122 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Louisville B | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan D | 122 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 122 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSB | 122 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Arizona State B | 123 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 124 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 125 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | James Madison | 126 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 137 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Vassar A | 140 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | Notre Dame B | 141 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto H | 142 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | UTD A | 142 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | UTD B | 142 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 142 | 0 |
| Noah Jaye | McMaster B | Guelph B | 142 | 0 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Purdue C | 142 | 10 |