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A scene in this novella describes how “a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment” after the death of a character whose body “flopped like a fish.” A character in this novella threatens to get a man with a crooked back “strung up on a tree,” and later bemoans how she married a man who wears a Vaseline-filled glove. In this novella, Carlson shoots the handyman Candy’s aging dog. In this novella, a character who dreams he’ll “live on the fatta the lan’” is killed to stop him from being lynched for strangling Curley’s wife. For 10 points, what John Steinbeck novella ends with George shooting Lennie? ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 83.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.86 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 88.80 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 89.25 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 112.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 80.42 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 33% | 88.88 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 78.33 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.22 |
| North | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.33 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 88.88 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 66.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 15% | 75.08 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 62.43 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doug Frederick | Auburn A | Emory A | 22 | -5 |
| Rishi Mathur | Claremont B | UCLA C | 31 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto C | 31 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF A | Florida A | 31 | -5 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa A | Murray State College A | 31 | -5 |
| David Xilbille | Georgia Tech C | South Carolina A | 31 | -5 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge A | Cardiff | 31 | -5 |
| Dan Millington | Birmingham | Imperial A | 35 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland A | Maryland C | 44 | -5 |
| David Nickel | Purdue A | Illinois Blue | 45 | 10 |
| Bennet Radey | Michigan C | Michigan State B | 50 | 10 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Cambridge A | 50 | 10 |
| David Ciardella | Vermont B | Amherst A | 53 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill C | Ottawa B | 59 | -5 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Cambridge E | 60 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD A | UCLA D | 62 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley Archer Queen | Stanford B | 63 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Waterloo C | 63 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU B | Michigan B | 63 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU A | Louisville A | 63 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | William & Mary A | 63 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC A | Virginia A | 63 | 10 |
| Ezra Zareba | UNC B | UNC D | 63 | -5 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers A | George Mason A | 63 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU A | Maryland B | 63 | 10 |
| Cooper Morris | Columbia B | Rutgers C | 63 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU Grolars | Chicago A | 63 | 10 |
| Mica Oestreich | Illinois Canada | Chicago B | 63 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Grizzlers | Purdue B | 63 | 10 |
| Maisie Quinn | Brown B | Boston College A | 63 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth B | Brandeis Mozart | 63 | 10 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Nebraska A | 63 | 10 |
| Buck Muhlbauer | Nebraska B | Nebraska C | 63 | 10 |
| Devin Tharp | Chipola College | Georgia Tech A | 63 | 10 |
| Fia Gale | Edinburgh D | Durham B | 63 | 10 |
| Musa Ahmed | Edinburgh C | Sheffield A | 63 | 10 |
| Jack Disbury | Durham D | York | 63 | 10 |
| Tevin Francis | Southampton | Cambridge B | 63 | -5 |
| Saleena Livera | Imperial B | Cambridge D | 63 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell D | RIT A | 63 | -5 |
| Steven McPhillimey | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 65 | 10 |
| Apollo Daley | Brown A | Tufts A | 65 | 10 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington Sockeye | British Columbia B | 65 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto B | Toronto A | 66 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State A | Michigan A | 66 | 10 |
| Sam Millenbach | Rowan | NYU C | 66 | 10 |
| Claire Harvey | Vassar B | George Mason C | 66 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin A | Iowa State | 66 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 66 | 10 |
| Charles Miller | William & Mary C | Duke A | 67 | 10 |
| Aidyn Boren | Murray State College B | Central Oklahoma A | 67 | 10 |
| Scott Hyde | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee Tech | 67 | 10 |
| Charlie Nicholls | Cambridge C | LSE | 67 | 10 |
| Lily Hughbanks | Purdue C | Indiana A | 68 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Bach | UConn A | 68 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Vanderbilt C | 68 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanne | Montevallo | 68 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Oxford | 68 | 10 |
| Rebecca Li | Ottawa A | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Gavin Morrow | Washington Steelhead | Arizona State A | 70 | 10 |
| Justin Gilbert | Auburn C | Vanderbilt B | 70 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Georgia Tech D | 70 | 10 |
| Leona Barker | Edinburgh B | Edinburgh A | 70 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton C | Cornell C | 70 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington Pink | Texas | 71 | -5 |
| Sam Barrekette | RIT A | Cornell D | 71 | 10 |
| Joseph Wang | UCLA E | UCLA F | 72 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 73 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Waterloo A | 73 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville D | Pittsburgh | 73 | 10 |
| Arlene Lopez | Stony Brook | Johns Hopkins | 73 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Rutgers D | 73 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Purdue D | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams A | Dartmouth A | 73 | 10 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State College A | Tulsa A | 73 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Georgia Tech C | 73 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont C | UCLA A | 75 | 10 |
| Jonah McGinley | Rochester | Cornell B | 75 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa A | Rose-Hulman A | 76 | 10 |
| Sonya Bates | Washington Atlantic | Boise State | 76 | 10 |
| Richard D’Angelo | Tennessee B | Clemson C | 76 | 10 |
| Tal Bowen | Durham A | Sheffield B | 76 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster B | Waterloo B | 78 | 10 |
| Bokei Thompson | Amherst B | Boston College B | 78 | 10 |
| Jacky Li | MIT B | Harvard | 78 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt A | Clemson A | 78 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | NCSU A | 80 | 10 |
| Aiden Wilson | WVU B | Louisville C | 81 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 81 | 10 |
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | McGill B | 85 | 10 |
| Nicolaus Derikx | Carleton A | Ottawa C | 87 | 10 |
| James Mickel | Michigan State C | Michigan State D | 87 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts C | Boston University B | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Mowery | Vermont A | Boston University A | 87 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta A | Washington Chum | 87 | 10 |
| Samarth Prajapati | Georgia Tech E | Auburn B | 87 | 10 |
| Brody Johnson | Louisville B | CWRU D | 88 | 10 |
| Vihaan Jim | Princeton | Rutgers B | 88 | 10 |
| Logan Van Pelt | Washington Coho | Alberta B | 89 | -5 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State B | Washington State | 90 | 10 |
| Gerrit Severeid | McGill E | Carleton B | 91 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | UNC C | 91 | -5 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Georgia A | 91 | 10 |
| Isabelle Mitchem | WVU A | Ohio State D | 92 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Williams B | 92 | 10 |
| Judah Solomon | Imperial D | Bristol | 94 | 10 |
| Yuv Magan | UCSD B | Claremont A | 97 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois Orange | Illinois Champaign | 97 | 10 |
| William Berger | Dartmouth C | Brandeis Beethoven | 97 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Michigan D | 98 | -5 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | Columbia A | 98 | 10 |
| Andrew Lin | Toronto G | Toronto E | 99 | 10 |
| Charles Xin | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 99 | 10 |
| Ethan Altshul | Emory A | Auburn A | 99 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | USC B | 100 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 101 | 10 |
| Parker Jones | NCSU B | JMU B | 102 | 10 |
| Samarth Majmudar | Illinois Urbana | William Woods University A | 102 | 10 |
| Isaiah Schmid | Binghamton B | ESF | 102 | 10 |
| Jonah Chancio | JMU A | Liberty A | 106 | -5 |
| Arjun Saulnier | CWRU C | Kentucky | 109 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn | George Mason B | 110 | 10 |
| Anjali Rao | Ottawa B | McGill C | 111 | 10 |
| Abigail Elms | Queen's A | Toronto H | 111 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto C | Toronto D | 112 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster C | Brock A | 112 | 10 |
| Ellie Wang | Brock A | McMaster C | 112 | 0 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto I | 112 | 0 |
| Jacob Ergueta | Florida A | UCF A | 112 | 10 |
| Gary Wang | Michigan D | Ohio State C | 112 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | Tusculum A | 112 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | UNC D | UNC B | 112 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | JMU A | 112 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | VCU A | 112 | 0 |
| Tanmay Mirashi | Maryland C | Maryland A | 112 | 10 |
| Vishnu Sharma | Texas | Washington Pink | 112 | 0 |
| Haylee Weisner | Washington Masu | Washington Chinook | 112 | 10 |
| Luke Simon | Alberta B | Washington Coho | 112 | 10 |
| Yasmin Campbell | Cambridge B | Southampton | 112 | 0 |