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In the final chapter of this novel, the protagonist sings the walking song The Road Goes Ever On as he returns home. In this novel, a character takes the name Barrel-rider before spotting “a large patch in the hollow of [a] left breast.” A character in this novel is unable to answer the riddle “what have I got in my pocket?” In this novel, Thorin Oakenshield is mortally wounded during the Battle of the Five Armies. In this novel, a quest to reclaim the treasure of Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug is pursued by a band of dwarves. For 10 points, Bilbo Baggins appears in what fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien that preceded The Lord of the Rings? ■END■
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 22.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 56.71 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 39.25 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 63.89 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 70.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 27% | 68.20 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 44.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 62.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 55.22 |
| North | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 44.50 |
| Pacific | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 65.38 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 52.33 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 56.58 |
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 72.25 |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 44.38 |
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 48.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Rootham | Ottawa D | Ottawa A | 17 | 10 |
| David Ropp | Duke A | William & Mary C | 17 | 10 |
| Barkot Belay | Emory A | Georgia Tech C | 17 | 10 |
| Nayaaz Hashim | Oxford | Birmingham | 19 | -5 |
| Chen Nagahawatte | Ottawa B | Carleton A | 20 | 10 |
| Diego Monge | Claremont C | USC A | 21 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto H | Toronto D | 21 | 10 |
| Will Marcotte | Toronto D | Toronto H | 21 | -5 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State A | Louisville D | 21 | 10 |
| Jesse Mindel | NCSU A | Virginia Tech C | 21 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Purdue A | 21 | -5 |
| Haiden Fox-Howells | Washington Steelhead | British Columbia B | 21 | 10 |
| Wiz Loayza | Harding | Tulsa A | 21 | 10 |
| Michael Shipman | Cambridge D | Cambridge B | 21 | 10 |
| Sam Eddon | Cambridge C | Cambridge E | 21 | 10 |
| Sam Barrekette | RIT A | Cornell D | 22 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto G | Toronto I | 24 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Michigan D | 24 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Lehigh A | 26 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester | Michigan Tech | 27 | 10 |
| AnnaMaria Donnelly | UCF A | South Florida A | 29 | 10 |
| Hermione Lu | Berkeley Little Prince | Stanford B | 30 | -5 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | William & Mary A | 30 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa A | Illinois Orange | 30 | 10 |
| Austin Tran | Rose-Hulman A | Illinois Champaign | 30 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa B | Central Oklahoma A | 30 | 10 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech A | Clemson A | 30 | 10 |
| Eleanor Dalton | York | Sheffield A | 30 | 10 |
| Harry Oxley | Imperial C | Imperial A | 30 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins | 31 | 10 |
| Noah Lang | Wisconsin B | Wisconsin A | 31 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 31 | 10 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | Claremont A | 32 | 10 |
| William Cowperthwait | NCSU B | UNC A | 32 | 10 |
| Lily Katz | Stony Brook | George Mason B | 32 | 10 |
| Sophia Madrazo | Purdue B | William Woods University A | 32 | 10 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty B | Liberty C | 33 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois Blue | WashU Grolars | 34 | 10 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago A | Illinois Urbana | 34 | 10 |
| Eoghan Herriot | Durham D | Durham A | 34 | 10 |
| Nathan Coble | Oklahoma | Nebraska B | 35 | 10 |
| Aeron Wheel | Cardiff | LSE | 38 | 10 |
| Sparrow Brotman | NYU B | Princeton | 40 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan B | Michigan State D | 42 | 10 |
| Mata Cooper | Southampton | Imperial B | 42 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska A | Murray State College A | 53 | 10 |
| Martin Brandenburg | Georgia A | Tennessee B | 57 | 10 |
| Joshua Lam | Ohio State B | Louisville C | 58 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue D | Illinois Canada | 58 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCLA C | 59 | 10 |
| Joseph Wang | UCLA E | UCSD A | 59 | 10 |
| Bryce Myers | Stanford A | Berkeley Archer Queen | 60 | 10 |
| Tymen Koetsier | Berkeley Mighty Miner | Berkeley Boss Bandit | 60 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD B | UCLA F | 60 | 10 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton B | McGill E | 60 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill B | Ottawa C | 60 | 10 |
| Daniel Luebs | Michigan State B | Louisville B | 60 | 10 |
| Nishad Joshi | Kentucky | Ohio State C | 60 | -5 |
| Stella Broome | Virginia A | UNC D | 60 | 10 |
| Isabella Johansson | NYU C | Rutgers B | 60 | -5 |
| Rohit Chintala | Maryland B | Vassar B | 60 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana A | Iowa B | 60 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota | 60 | 10 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Wisconsin C | 60 | 10 |
| Brendan Liaw | British Columbia A | Alberta A | 60 | 10 |
| Kylie Tokeshi | Arizona State A | Washington Chum | 60 | -5 |
| Bryce Younger | Boise State | Washington State | 60 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta B | Washington Sockeye | 60 | 10 |
| Auburn Carter | Murray State College B | Kansas State B | 60 | -5 |
| Veronica Ritter | Kansas State A | Rose State | 60 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Alabama A | 60 | 10 |
| Ian Hatcher | Chipola College | Tennessee Tech | 60 | 10 |
| Andrew Heller | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech B | 60 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech F | 60 | -5 |
| Thomas Popham | Edinburgh D | Edinburgh B | 60 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh A | Sheffield B | 60 | 10 |
| Isy Simpkins | Durham B | Durham C | 60 | 10 |
| Sia Kalia | Warwick | Bristol | 60 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU B | Pittsburgh | 61 | 10 |
| Gavin Ge | Waterloo B | McMaster C | 63 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | Florida B | Florida Tech A | 63 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | Tusculum A | 63 | 10 |
| Ezra Zareba | UNC B | Virginia Tech A | 63 | 10 |
| Lishu Wang | Chicago B | Purdue C | 63 | -5 |
| Sonya Bates | Washington Atlantic | Arizona State B | 63 | 10 |
| Brandon Wiltse | Washington Chinook | Texas | 63 | 10 |
| Madeline Painter | Georgia Tech D | Clemson C | 63 | 10 |
| Aidan Hoffner | McMaster B | Waterloo A | 65 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto E | Waterloo C | 65 | 10 |
| James Mickel | Michigan State C | Michigan C | 65 | -5 |
| Caedmon Holland | Lehigh B | Rutgers A | 65 | -5 |
| Sam Millenbach | Rowan | Rutgers D | 65 | 10 |
| John Shelley | Clemson B | Sewanne | 65 | 10 |
| Edwin Griffith | Birmingham | Oxford | 65 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | Claremont B | 68 | 10 |
| Orin Overmiller | Florida Tech B | Florida A | 69 | 10 |
| Justin Gilbert | Auburn C | Vanderbilt C | 70 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto B | Queen's A | 71 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Berkeley Little Prince | 75 | 10 |
| Orion Brey | Louisville A | WVU A | 75 | -5 |
| Ryan Zhang | British Columbia C | Washington Pink | 75 | 10 |
| Logan Patil | Georgia Tech F | Mississippi State A | 77 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial D | Cambridge A | 78 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | JMU A | Virginia Tech B | 80 | 10 |
| Monica Wang | Guelph A | Toronto A | 82 | 10 |
| Brayden Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Montevallo | 89 | 10 |
| Ellie Wang | Brock A | Toronto F | 91 | 10 |
| Oliver Thompson | CWRU D | CWRU A | 91 | 10 |
| Venkat Das | WVU B | Ohio State D | 91 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers A | Lehigh B | 91 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland A | Rutgers C | 92 | 10 |
| Jesse Erwin | Toronto C | McMaster A | 93 | 10 |
| Hansen Jin | Berkeley Skeleton King | UCSC | 94 | 10 |
| Daniel Rosado | UCLA D | USC B | 98 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Indiana B | 98 | 10 |
| Yishak Kelkay | ERAU Daytona A | Florida State A | 103 | -5 |
| Sewanth Paudel | Ohio State C | Kentucky | 113 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan State C | 114 | 0 |
| Franchelle Villapena | Kansas State B | Murray State College B | 115 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | ERAU Daytona A | 121 | 10 |
| Chase Moss | WVU A | Louisville A | 121 | 10 |
| Daniel Craig | Rutgers B | NYU C | 121 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue C | Chicago B | 121 | 10 |
| Tri Lam | Washington Chum | Arizona State A | 121 | 10 |