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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Yale B | 39 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana B | 39 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford C | 46 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 48 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 48 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | LSE B | 48 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | OSU B | 49 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 49 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 49 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan D | 49 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 49 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 49 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 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 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU A | 75 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Williams | 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 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Vassar A | 85 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Southampton A | 85 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 88 | -5 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Texas B | 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 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 93 | 10 |
| Truman Hill | Vanderbilt A | Huntsville A | 93 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington B | 93 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Wilson | 94 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 94 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU D | 95 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Tusculum | 95 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 95 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 95 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 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 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 110 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Georgia Tech C | 110 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson B | 111 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Nebraska | 111 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 111 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 111 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial A | 111 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton B | 111 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 111 | 10 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Stanford 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 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 111 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia B | 112 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Iowa State | 113 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCLA C | 114 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | USF | 114 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Lancaster A | 114 | -5 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 114 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Pitt C | 117 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | UTD B | 118 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSB | 119 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Columbia B | 119 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Penn B | 119 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | UIC | 121 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 121 | -5 |
| Samson Vickrey | Purdue C | Indiana A | 122 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Amherst B | 125 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Bowdoin B | 126 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 126 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | Melbourne A | 126 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 126 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | MIT B | 132 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | Melbourne 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 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Binghamton 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 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 134 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Maryland A | 134 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern A | 134 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas A | 134 | 10 |