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 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 68 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 68 | 10 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Southampton B | 68 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Warwick A | 68 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 68 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 68 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UCO | 69 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Nebraska | 69 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia Tech B | 70 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Chicago A | 70 | 10 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 70 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 70 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina B | 70 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 70 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern A | 70 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn A | 72 | 10 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto E | Waterloo | 74 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rowan A | 77 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill B | 77 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Purdue A | 82 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | McGill 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 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Clemson B | 95 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 95 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 99 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 108 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Huntsville A | 108 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 110 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Vanderbilt A | 110 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McMaster A | 111 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto I | 111 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 111 | -5 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 113 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Northwestern B | 113 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 116 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 119 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Louisville B | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan D | 122 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 122 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McGill C | 122 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Sewanee A | 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 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Purdue C | 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 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto H | 142 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | UTD A | 142 | 10 |