In one of these places in a 1935 novella, a man with the “eyes of a schoolboy surprised in the act of breaking one of the rules” is noticed by William Bradshaw. Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories begins with a novella titled for the communist spy Mr. Norris and these places. In one of these places, Cyrus B. Hardman complains that he cannot find a “small, dark man with a womanish voice.” In one of these places, a man finds a handkerchief embroidered with the letter “H” belonging to Princess Dragomiroff and searches for a “scarlet kimono.” In one of these places, the disguised baby kidnapper Cassetti is stabbed by all twelve suspects. For 10 points, name this type of place where Ratchett’s death is investigated by Hercule Poirot (“air-COOL pwah-ROH”) in Murder on the Orient Express. ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.60 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.83 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.17 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.29 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 104.30 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 94.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 103.75 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 111.40 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 92.17 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 93.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 100.75 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 94.50 |
| UK | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 86.36 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 126.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana B | 39 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Yale B | 39 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford C | 46 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | LSE B | 48 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 48 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 48 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | OSU B | 49 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 49 | -5 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | George Mason B | 49 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington A | 49 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason C | 49 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 49 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 49 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 49 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 49 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan D | 49 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | James Madison | 54 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Chicago D | 54 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 54 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Brown C | 57 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | McGill D | 58 | -5 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Georgetown B | 64 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Manchester B | 70 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Imperial C | 74 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | CWRU C | 75 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Williams | 75 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU A | 75 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 75 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | BC A | 77 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | UAB A | 79 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Columbia A | 81 | -5 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | MSU A | 84 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown B | 84 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Rose State | 84 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Virginia Tech A | 85 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Southampton A | 85 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Vassar A | 85 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia C | 86 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | NC State | 87 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Texas B | 88 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 88 | -5 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | North Carolina C | 89 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota C | 89 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 89 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 89 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Minnesota B | 91 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Illinois B | 92 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington B | 93 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 93 | 10 |
| Truman Hill | Vanderbilt A | Huntsville A | 93 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 94 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Wilson | 94 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU D | 95 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Tusculum | 95 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 95 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 95 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 95 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern C | 98 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | USC | 99 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | UMBC A | 99 | 10 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | ERAU A | 100 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | FSU | 100 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge C | 100 | 10 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty A | Tennessee B | 101 | 10 |
| Annabelle Brett | Sheffield C | Durham B | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley A | 103 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | UCLA D | 103 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Louisville B | 105 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Princeton A | 108 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt B | 108 | -5 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | Kenyon B | 109 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota A | 109 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Georgia Tech C | 110 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 110 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 111 | 10 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Stanford B | 111 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson B | 111 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland B | 111 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Catholic University | 111 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | Notre Dame E | 111 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Nebraska | 111 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 111 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 111 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial A | 111 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 111 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton B | 111 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia B | 112 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Iowa State | 113 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | USF | 114 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 114 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Lancaster A | 114 | -5 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCLA C | 114 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Pitt C | 117 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | UTD B | 118 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Penn B | 119 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSB | 119 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Columbia B | 119 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 121 | -5 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | UIC | 121 | 10 |
| Samson Vickrey | Purdue C | Indiana A | 122 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Amherst B | 125 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | Melbourne A | 126 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Bowdoin B | 126 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 126 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 126 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 127 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | British Columbia D | 127 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | BC B | 129 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | ERAU B | 131 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | Melbourne B | 132 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | MIT B | 132 | 10 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech D | 132 | 10 |
| Cossette Anderson | Minnesota C | Carleton | 133 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Tufts A | 133 | 10 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Cornell-DII | 133 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Roanoke | 134 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 134 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | South Carolina A | 134 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Maryland A | 134 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern A | 134 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 134 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas A | 134 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Lehigh A | 134 | 0 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Mississippi State A | 134 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Sewanee A | 134 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |