A medieval travel journal from this country was written by an anonymous “Lady” whose aunt, known only as a noble’s “mother,” authored The Gossamer Years. A book from this country opens “In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful” and features the section “Embarrassing Things.” Ivan Morris translated that book and one retitled after the same “Bridge of Dreams” that titles a chapter of a novel from this country. A possibly autobiographical character in a novel from this country is kidnapped by the protagonist after the daughter of the Minister of the Left dies. The blank chapter “Vanished into the Clouds” appears in that novel from this country, often considered the first modern novel. For 10 points, name this country home to the authors of The Pillow Book and The Tale of Genji. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 105.25 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.29 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 90.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 90.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.36 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 48.60 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.67 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 78.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.63 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 80.80 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 71.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Minnesota A | 12 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis Orlando | Brown B | 16 | -5 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 24 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Penn A | 24 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 25 | 10 |
| Shaphnah McKenzie | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 26 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 29 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 29 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McMaster A | 30 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 30 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Indiana A | 36 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | CWRU B | 38 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | LSE B | 38 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 40 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Vassar A | 40 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 40 | 10 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | SIUE | 42 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Tufts B | 45 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 46 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | CWRU A | 46 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago B | 46 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 46 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Notre Dame B | 46 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 46 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 46 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 46 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 46 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 46 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 48 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia A | 48 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Tennessee B | 48 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Rose State | 48 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Maryland D | 49 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 49 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Texas B | 49 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 51 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 51 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Roanoke | 57 | -5 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | UTD A | 60 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | George Mason B | 62 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | NYU B | 68 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 68 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Michigan B | 69 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 70 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 70 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 70 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Durham B | 70 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 70 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | Edinburgh B | 71 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | St. Thomas | 73 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 73 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA C | 77 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | Williams | 77 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Tufts A | 78 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Penn B | 80 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 80 | 10 |
| Antara Bhattacharya | Cambridge B | Sheffield B | 80 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 82 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 82 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA D | 84 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | George Washington A | 85 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | Kenyon B | 88 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 88 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McMaster C | 94 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | UF A | 94 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 94 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Macalester A | 94 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | McGill C | 95 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto H | Toronto I | 95 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Clemson A | 95 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 95 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 95 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | UTD B | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Hayes | Warwick A | Southampton B | 95 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 98 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 98 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 98 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Guelph A | 99 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Liberty C | 99 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 99 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 99 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 100 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 101 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan C | 101 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 102 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 102 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 102 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 102 | 10 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Chicago D | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Purdue B | 102 | 10 |
| Ai Xing | Minnesota B | Nebraska | 102 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Amherst B | 102 | -5 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 102 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 102 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Cambridge C | 102 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Cambridge D | 102 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FSU | 103 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | McGill D | 103 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Manchester B | 103 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto Metropolitan | 106 | 10 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Lehigh A | 106 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | Arizona State B | 106 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF B | 109 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | William Woods | 109 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 109 | -5 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Clemson B | 111 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 113 | 10 |
| Ethan Enochian | Purdue C | Michigan D | 114 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | WashU C | 115 | 10 |
| Juliette Flatau | Imperial C | Southampton A | 116 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Queen's A | 118 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins C | 118 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 119 | -5 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 125 | 10 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | MSU B | 129 | 10 |
| Lainey Pierce | ESF | Rochester | 133 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | North Carolina C | 134 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Queen's B | 135 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Waterloo | 135 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto G | 135 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | ERAU A | 135 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 135 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 135 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Johns Hopkins B | 135 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 135 | 10 |
| Hanson Huynh | BU | Bowdoin B | 135 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 135 | 10 |