In one of these places in a 1935 novella, a man with the “eyes of a schoolboy surprised in the act of breaking one of the rules” is noticed by William Bradshaw. Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories begins with a novella titled for the communist spy Mr. Norris and these places. In one of these places, Cyrus B. Hardman complains that he cannot find a “small, dark man with a womanish voice.” In one of these places, a man finds a handkerchief embroidered with the letter “H” belonging to Princess Dragomiroff and searches for a “scarlet kimono.” In one of these places, the disguised baby kidnapper Cassetti is stabbed by all twelve suspects. For 10 points, name this type of place where Ratchett’s death is investigated by Hercule Poirot (“air-COOL pwah-ROH”) in Murder on the Orient Express. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 126.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 86.36 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.29 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 104.30 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 94.00 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 103.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.60 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 111.40 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 92.17 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 93.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 100.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 94.50 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.83 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana B | 39 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Yale B | 39 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford C | 46 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 48 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | LSE B | 48 | 10 |
| Harry Sexton | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 48 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | OSU B | 49 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 49 | -5 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | George Mason B | 49 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason C | 49 | -5 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington A | 49 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan D | 49 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 49 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 49 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 49 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 49 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | James Madison | 54 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Chicago D | 54 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 54 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Brown C | 57 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | McGill D | 58 | -5 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | Georgetown B | 64 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Manchester B | 70 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Imperial C | 74 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 75 | 10 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | CWRU C | 75 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU A | 75 | 10 |
| Sophia Zhong | Bowdoin A | Williams | 75 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | BC A | 77 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | UAB A | 79 | 10 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Columbia A | 81 | -5 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | MSU A | 84 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown B | 84 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Rose State | 84 | 10 |
| Hayden Owen | Clemson A | Virginia Tech A | 85 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick | Lehigh A | Vassar A | 85 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Southampton A | 85 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia C | 86 | 10 |
| Elle Lee | Virginia A | NC State | 87 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Notre Dame C | 88 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Texas B | 88 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 88 | -5 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | North Carolina C | 89 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota C | 89 | -5 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 89 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 89 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin | Minnesota B | 91 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Illinois B | 92 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington B | 93 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 93 | 10 |
| Truman Hill | Vanderbilt A | Huntsville A | 93 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Wilson | 94 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 94 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 95 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU D | 95 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Tusculum | 95 | -5 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 95 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 95 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern C | 98 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | USC | 99 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU A | UMBC A | 99 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | FSU | 100 | 10 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | ERAU A | 100 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge C | 100 | 10 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty A | Tennessee B | 101 | 10 |
| Annabelle Brett | Sheffield C | Durham B | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley A | 103 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UCI | UCLA D | 103 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Louisville B | 105 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Princeton A | 108 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt B | 108 | -5 |
| Wren Davis | CWRU D | Kenyon B | 109 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota A | 109 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 110 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Georgia Tech C | 110 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 111 | 10 |
| Huy Lai | UCSC | Stanford B | 111 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson B | 111 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Catholic University | 111 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins A | Notre Dame E | 111 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Maryland B | 111 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 111 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Nebraska | 111 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 111 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 111 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial A | 111 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton B | 111 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia B | 112 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Iowa State | 113 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCLA C | 114 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | USF | 114 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 114 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol B | Lancaster A | 114 | -5 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Pitt C | 117 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | UTD B | 118 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSB | 119 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Penn B | 119 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Columbia B | 119 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | UIC | 121 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 121 | -5 |
| Samson Vickrey | Purdue C | Indiana A | 122 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Amherst B | 125 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | Melbourne A | 126 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Bowdoin B | 126 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 126 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 126 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 127 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | British Columbia D | 127 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | BC B | 129 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | ERAU B | 131 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | Melbourne B | 132 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | MIT B | 132 | 10 |
| Edward Zhang | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech D | 132 | 10 |
| Cossette Anderson | Minnesota C | Carleton | 133 | 10 |
| Luc Vulliez | Amherst B | Tufts A | 133 | 10 |
| Madison Glaser | ESF | Cornell-DII | 133 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | North Carolina A | 134 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | South Carolina A | 134 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Roanoke | 134 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Maryland A | 134 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Lehigh A | 134 | 0 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Northwestern A | 134 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Texas A | 134 | 10 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Mississippi State A | 134 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Sewanee A | 134 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 134 | 10 |
| Caitlyn Begosa | Syracuse | Binghamton A | 134 | 10 |