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 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | LSE B | 48 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 48 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 48 | 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 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 49 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan D | 49 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 49 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | OSU B | 49 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 49 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 49 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Chicago D | 54 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 54 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | James Madison | 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 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 75 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Williams | 75 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | CWRU C | 75 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU A | 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown B | 84 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | MSU A | 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 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 89 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota C | 89 | -5 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 89 | 10 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | North Carolina C | 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 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Wilson | 94 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 94 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 95 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Tusculum | 95 | -5 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 95 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU D | 95 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 95 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern C | 98 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | UMBC A | 99 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | USC | 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 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | UCLA D | 103 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley A | 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 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota A | 109 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | Kenyon B | 109 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 110 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Georgia Tech C | 110 | 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 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial A | 111 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 111 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Nebraska | 111 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 111 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton B | 111 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson B | 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 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 114 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Lancaster A | 114 | -5 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Pitt C | 117 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | UTD B | 118 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSB | 119 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Penn B | 119 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Columbia 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 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 126 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | Melbourne A | 126 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Bowdoin B | 126 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 126 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | British Columbia D | 127 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 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 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Tufts A | 133 | 10 |
| Cossette Anderson | Minnesota C | Carleton | 133 | 10 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Cornell-DII | 133 | 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 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Lehigh A | 134 | 0 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 134 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Roanoke | 134 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern A | 134 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas A | 134 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Mississippi State A | 134 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Sewanee A | 134 | 10 |