This author depicted Octave, a widower who expands his wife’s silk shop into a department store named The Ladies’ Paradise, in a sequel to a novel whose title has been translated by Henry Vizetelly as Piping Hot. In a novel by this author, a woman who has a stroke is unable to report the murder of a character who bites a man on the neck before drowning. A character created by this author meets the anarchist Souvarine in a novel set in “Le Voreux.” This author, who wrote a novel in which a character kills Catherine’s abusive lover Chaval while trapped in a pit, created the murderer Thérèse Raquin (“tay-REZZ ra-CAN”). Étienne Lantier leads a strike at the Montsou mines in this author’s novel Germinal. For 10 points, name this author of the Rougon-Macquart (“roo-GON-mah-CAR”) series, who defended Alfred Dreyfus in the letter “J’Accuse…!” ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.33 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 118.09 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 133.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 108.14 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 102.38 |
| North | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 104.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 119.40 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.80 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.70 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 120.20 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 139.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 108.13 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 103.57 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.50 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 112.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley D | 19 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech B | 19 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | UMBC A | 19 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Louisville A | 23 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | Kenyon B | 25 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Sewanee A | 27 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | North Carolina A | 30 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Arizona State B | 33 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | Claremont Scripps | 46 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 56 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 66 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rowan A | 68 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | UAB A | 72 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 74 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland D | 79 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford C | 80 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota C | 81 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Washington A | 81 | 10 |
| Shaynee Ruffle | Toronto I | Toronto F | 83 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Guelph A | 83 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason A | 83 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Iowa | 86 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Clemson B | 99 | 0 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers B | 99 | -5 |
| Valentina Chamandy | McGill A | Toronto A | 106 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue A | 106 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Pitt C | 107 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA C | 108 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Manchester B | 108 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | North Carolina C | 109 | -5 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | William Woods | 109 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Truman State | 109 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Roanoke | 110 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UTD A | 110 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Notre Dame C | 113 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UCO | 113 | 10 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol A | Cambridge A | 113 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Virginia B | 116 | 10 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | Texas B | 116 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 117 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU D | 117 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Chicago D | 117 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Vanderbilt B | 117 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | UCSC | 119 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley F | 119 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Alabama B | 120 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Kenyon A | 121 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Indiana B | 121 | 10 |
| Anthony Gagliano | McGill B | Toronto H | 122 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | McMaster B | 122 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Waterloo | 122 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | MSU A | 122 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | OSU C | 122 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Penn B | 122 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Columbia C | 122 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU D | 122 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | SIUE | 122 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 122 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Nebraska | 122 | -5 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Wisconsin | 122 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Mississippi State A | 122 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | LSE B | 122 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton A | 122 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | Claremont Pitzer | 123 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | Pitt B | 123 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | George Washington B | 123 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 124 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia B | 124 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Georgia Tech B | 124 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | UF B | 125 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF C | 125 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Liberty B | 125 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Georgetown B | 125 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Notre Dame A | 125 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Alberta | 125 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Tulsa | 125 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Northwestern C | 125 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | UCSB | 127 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Western Ontario | 127 | 10 |
| Miles Spieler | OSU D | MSU B | 127 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | George Mason C | 128 | -5 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Michigan C | 128 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | British Columbia C | 128 | 10 |
| Sri Lnu | Clemson B | South Carolina A | 132 | 0 |
| Carter McLean | Princeton A | Vassar A | 132 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 135 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton B | 135 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Chicago B | 136 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Macalester B | 136 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto D | 139 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Clemson B | 139 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Tennessee B | 139 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Bowdoin A | 139 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Queen's B | 140 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason B | 140 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Columbia A | 140 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Purdue C | 140 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | St. Thomas | 140 | 10 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Georgia Tech D | 140 | 0 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCLA B | 141 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph B | 141 | 0 |
| Ellen Ge | Toronto E | Toronto J | 141 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Ottawa | 141 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | FSU | 141 | 0 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | ERAU A | 141 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | ERAU B | 141 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | Melbourne B | 141 | 0 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Clemson A | 141 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Johns Hopkins B | 141 | 10 |
| Jun Chen | George Mason C | Penn A | 141 | 0 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Alberta B | 141 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | UTD B | 141 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Huntsville B | 141 | 10 |
| Daniel Griffaton | Syracuse | ESF | 141 | 10 |