A dark horse candidate for this office won after defeating airline executive Al Checchi (“CHECK-ee”) in this office’s only ever “blanket primary.” A holder of this office staked a successful 1994 reelection campaign on a ballot initiative to bar undocumented immigrants from public education and healthcare. A holder of this office lost support after ending the implementation of the “Save our State” initiative and facing an electricity crisis in 2001. That holder of this office was recalled in a 2003 election and was Gray Davis. This office’s most recent Republican holder was a former actor and bodybuilder. Another former actor held this office in between the tenures of Pat and Jerry Brown. For 10 points, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan held what office that leads a state from Sacramento? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 69.33 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 89.17 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 91.14 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 81.29 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.70 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.36 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 80.20 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 67.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.20 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 78.25 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 83.88 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.40 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethan Skolnick | WashU A | Missouri B | 39 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 42 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCLA D | 42 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | NYU B | 42 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brown C | 44 | 10 |
| Julian Thomson Harris | Vassar A | Swarthmore A | 45 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU B | 46 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 46 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 49 | -5 |
| Matthew Forster | Dartmouth | Amherst A | 49 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis Lloyd George | Brandeis Wilson | 50 | 10 |
| Don Ung | WashU D | SIUE | 53 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Stanford A | 65 | -5 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 65 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Princeton A | 65 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Toronto G | 66 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia B | 66 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | USC | 67 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 68 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCLA A | 68 | 10 |
| Scott Sibley | UCI | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 68 | -5 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 68 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto Metropolitan | 68 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Pitt A | 68 | 10 |
| William Edwards | Tennessee A | Clemson A | 68 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty A | 68 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Notre Dame E | 68 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Georgetown A | 68 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 68 | 10 |
| Robert Szot | Nebraska | Iowa State | 68 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 68 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Williams | 68 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Northwestern C | 68 | -5 |
| Zaynab Guezzar | USF | UF D | 70 | -5 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 73 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 73 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 75 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 77 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | McMaster C | 78 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | Tufts A | 78 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA C | 79 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | Pitt C | 79 | 10 |
| Thomas Catuosco | Rutgers B | Rowan A | 79 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 79 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Ohio | 79 | 10 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 79 | 10 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | UCSC | 81 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF A | UF A | 81 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF E | 81 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | OSU D | 81 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | St. Thomas | 81 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | BC A | 81 | 10 |
| Meggy Mani | Georgetown B | Maryland D | 82 | 10 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Rose State | 82 | 10 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 83 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph A | Carleton | 83 | 10 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | CWRU D | 83 | -5 |
| Prahalad Rao | OSU B | OSU C | 83 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | James Madison | 83 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | Liberty C | 83 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina A | 83 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 83 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | VCU A | 83 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 83 | 10 |
| Simon Bennett | Macalester A | Minnesota B | 83 | 10 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Bowdoin B | 83 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington B | British Columbia C | 83 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Iowa | 83 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | Binghamton B | 83 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 84 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | McGill C | 85 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Arizona State A | 85 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | ESF | 85 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 89 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 92 | 10 |
| Faraz Foroughi | NC State | Tennessee B | 93 | 10 |
| Spencer Thomas | Yale A | MIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Derek Li | Cornell-DII | RIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McMaster A | 95 | 10 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | McMaster B | 95 | 10 |
| William Schwartz | Guelph B | Toronto B | 95 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Toronto D | 95 | 10 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Toronto J | 95 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | ERAU A | 95 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | UCF B | UF B | 95 | 10 |
| Dominic Heffron | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 95 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF C | 95 | 10 |
| Vivian Adolph | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 95 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 95 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Columbia C | 95 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | WashU C | 95 | 10 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 95 | 10 |
| Lance Hulme | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 95 | 10 |
| Jacob Peitz | BC B | Yale B | 95 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | British Columbia A | 95 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | British Columbia D | 95 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Tulsa | 95 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern A | UTD B | 95 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton A | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | USF | 96 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Roanoke | 96 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 96 | 10 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 98 | 10 |
| Charlotte Wilcox | Western Ontario | Toronto I | 117 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Stanford C | 127 | 10 |
| Mohit Nair | CWRU D | CWRU C | 128 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Brandeis Clemenceau | 128 | 10 |