111 workers who built this structure recounted their experiences in a series of letters discussed by a Julie Greene book and the documentary Box 25. The existence of a secret plan to destroy this structure was confirmed by the autobiography America’s Prisoner. People who died in 1964 riots that tore down the “Fence of Shame” around this structure were commemorated on Martyrs Day. It’s not a tower, but Gustave Eiffel was prosecuted in a bribery scandal during an unsuccessful attempt to build this structure. Walter Reed’s medical advancements controlling yellow fever enabled the construction of this structure, which the Torrijos–Carter treaties transferred from US control in 1999. For 10 points, what man-made waterway connects the Caribbean to the Pacific through a namesake Central American country? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 101.75 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 7% | 96.21 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 31% | 93.54 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 94.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 87.43 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 92.80 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 27% | 94.64 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 65.20 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 79.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 104.40 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 88.58 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 92.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 95.20 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Michigan A | 24 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | McGill C | 34 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Mason A | 39 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | George Mason B | 39 | 10 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol A | Edinburgh B | 42 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Ohio | 44 | -5 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | Georgetown B | 46 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McGill A | 54 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Bowdoin B | 54 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Cornell-UG | 54 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Berkeley F | 57 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | McGill B | 57 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UF C | 57 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | Pitt B | 57 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan C | 57 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | UCSC | 59 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | UTD A | 61 | -5 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford A | Berkeley E | 62 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | South Carolina B | 62 | -5 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | North Carolina B | 62 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Vassar A | 62 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 62 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Northwestern A | 62 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester A | 64 | 10 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | Western Ontario | 66 | -5 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon A | 66 | -5 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 69 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Chicago B | 69 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Rose State | 69 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Clemson A | 71 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Dartmouth | 71 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Brandeis Orlando | 71 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | WashU A | 73 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Waterloo | 74 | -5 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | McMaster A | 75 | -5 |
| Jacob Ergueta | UF B | UF E | 75 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | OSU C | CWRU A | 75 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Columbia C | 75 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSB | 76 | -5 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Arizona State A | 76 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Maryland B | 77 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Imperial B | 77 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Penn A | 78 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Tufts A | 78 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 79 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto K | 79 | 10 |
| Danny Peelen | Pitt A | CWRU B | 79 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Princeton A | 79 | -5 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame A | 79 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Purdue A | 82 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA D | UCLA B | 83 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 83 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 83 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | FSU | 83 | -5 |
| Gabriel Dodds—Captain | Liberty C | Virginia B | 83 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Liberty B | 83 | 10 |
| Vayun Krishna | Georgetown A | VCU A | 83 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BC A | 83 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Amherst A | 83 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester B | Warwick B | 83 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT B | 83 | -5 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton B | Syracuse | 83 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | James Madison | 85 | 10 |
| Marin Burg | St. Thomas | Macalester B | 85 | -5 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto E | 87 | -5 |
| Andrew McKenzie | OSU D | Kenyon B | 87 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | Clemson B | 87 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | North Carolina A | 87 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Johns Hopkins A | 87 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Minnesota C | 87 | -5 |
| Arthur Zhang | Purdue B | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Louisville A | 89 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Guelph A | 90 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | UIC | 90 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Brown C | 90 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Brown A | 90 | -5 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Tulsa | 90 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Durham B | 90 | 10 |
| Cole Hammans | Nebraska | Minnesota B | 91 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Brandeis Wilson | 92 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | Melbourne A | 93 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | MSU B | CWRU D | 93 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers B | 93 | 10 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Chicago D | 93 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Arizona State B | 93 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | City St George's A | 93 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Lancaster A | 93 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton A | 93 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | RIT A | 93 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | Catholic University | 94 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | Truman State | 95 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts B | Yale B | 95 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCLA A | 96 | 10 |
| Adam Zhang | UCI | Claremont Pitzer | 96 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 96 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | MSU A | 96 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | North Carolina C | 96 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | UMBC A | 96 | 10 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason C | 96 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU B | 96 | 10 |
| Grant Koh | Michigan D | Purdue C | 96 | 10 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | BC B | 96 | -5 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | UTD B | 96 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | ESF | 96 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Sheffield C | 98 | 10 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick A | Southampton B | 98 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto J | 99 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Lehigh B | 99 | -5 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Indiana B | 99 | -5 |
| Adam Bentley | Sheffield B | Cambridge B | 99 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Bristol B | 100 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | LSE B | 100 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Southampton A | 100 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | St. Thomas | 103 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | WashU D | 104 | 10 |
| Siddhant Kumar | Edinburgh B | Bristol A | 104 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto F | 106 | 10 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | McMaster B | 106 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | FIU | 106 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | NC State | 106 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham A | Cambridge D | 106 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Oxford B | 106 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Notre Dame E | 107 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | ERAU B | 109 | 10 |
| Ryan Gameng | George Washington B | Johns Hopkins C | 112 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | South Carolina A | 118 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | USC | 121 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto A | 121 | 10 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Liberty A | 121 | 10 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia B | 121 | 10 |
| Stephen Ottewell | Toronto H | Toronto I | 124 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | NYU B | 124 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 125 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 125 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Queen's B | 125 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UCF A | 125 | 10 |
| Graham Price | Kenyon A | Pitt C | 125 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn B | 125 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers C | 125 | 10 |
| Anurag Shah | Indiana B | Notre Dame D | 125 | 10 |
| Alex Feller | Minnesota C | Iowa State | 125 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 10 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown A | Amherst B | 125 | 10 |
| Michael Zheng | Amherst A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 125 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Northwestern B | 125 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Alberta B | 125 | 10 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Binghamton B | 125 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Wisconsin | 139 | 10 |