Characters who later appear in this story cause Leila to yearn for siblings while in a cab to the title event in the story “Her First Ball.” A girl in this story bites a piece of bread and butter while pondering “absurd class distinctions” after seeing a workman stop to smell lavender. A character described as “the butterfly” tests a piano in this story by practicing the song “This Life is Weary” before the maid Sadie interrupts to ask about sandwich flags. After hearing of a man thrown off his horse from Godber’s man during his cream puff delivery, a character in this story attempts to cancel the title event. That character takes leftover food to the widow of Scott and embraces her brother while stammering “Isn’t life.” For 10 points, Laura Sheridan plans the title event of what Katherine Mansfield story? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 130.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 107.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 89.67 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 89.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 118.40 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 89.33 |
| California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.25 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 120.60 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 9% | 98.22 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 89.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 13% | 81.17 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 104.14 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.10 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia A | 26 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia B | 26 | -5 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina A | 31 | 10 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee A | 35 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU A | 36 | -5 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon A | 40 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard | 40 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Dartmouth | 41 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 43 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU C | 44 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 45 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago C | 45 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 46 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 47 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Columbia C | 47 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 50 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern A | 51 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 51 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Bruin A | 51 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley B | 53 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern B | 53 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Brown A | 54 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 65 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Washington B | 65 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | USC | 71 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | MSU A | 72 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSB | 74 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Alberta B | 74 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois B | Kentucky | 75 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina C | 79 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley C | 81 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | FIU | 81 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Clemson A | 81 | -5 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Michigan A | 81 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | UCO | 81 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Louisville B | 82 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Notre Dame C | 83 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | Northwestern C | 86 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | RIT B | 90 | -5 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 91 | -5 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Minnesota A | 94 | 10 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn A | Vanderbilt B | 96 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF A | 98 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | OSU D | 98 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Wilson | BC A | 98 | 10 |
| Gabrielle Smith | Auburn B | Mississippi State A | 105 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Stanford B | 109 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | WashU B | 109 | 10 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | Truman State | 109 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago A | 109 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Michigan D | 109 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Purdue B | 109 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Macalester A | 109 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 109 | 10 |
| Grace Ma | Brown C | BU | 110 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | MIT B | 111 | -5 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | UAB A | 111 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCI | 114 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Rutgers B | 114 | -5 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Minnesota C | 117 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | UTD B | 117 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Williams | 119 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 122 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Tennessee B | 127 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Sewanee A | 127 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 130 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | NC State | 132 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Huntsville B | 136 | -5 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Brandeis Orlando | 138 | 10 |
| John Mitnik | Columbia B | Rowan A | 139 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | James Madison | 140 | 10 |
| Carter Herron | Chicago B | UIC | 140 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 141 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | FSU | 142 | 0 |
| Kathleen Perez | ERAU B | ERAU A | 142 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | Melbourne A | 142 | 0 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | UF E | 142 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | USF | 142 | 0 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | ERAU B | 142 | 0 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon B | 142 | 0 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | CWRU D | 142 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | OSU B | 142 | 10 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Pitt C | 142 | 0 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Virginia B | 142 | 0 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | South Carolina B | 142 | 0 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | South Carolina A | 142 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Lehigh A | 142 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Vassar A | 142 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | William Woods | 142 | 0 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU D | 142 | 0 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | Wisconsin | 142 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 142 | 0 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Clemenceau | 142 | 10 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 142 | 0 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Tufts B | 142 | 10 |
| Alan Zhang | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 142 | 10 |
| Ayden Gates | Rose State | Tulsa | 142 | 0 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Ohio | 142 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | Rose State | 142 | 0 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State B | UTD A | 142 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Auburn A | 142 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 142 | 10 |