A prologue by this author recounts the development of a joke in which passengers on a steamboat to Alexandria shout “Hans” after two Lebanese men humiliate the title “Tramp from Piraeus.” In a story by this author, a Zulu man spits in the face of a gay public official named Bobby who attempts to pick him up in a bar before being beaten at a checkpoint. Back-to-back stories in a collection by this author follow the insane Man-Man and the poet B. Wordsworth. The linked stories “One out of Many” and “Tell Me Who to Kill” appear in this author’s book In a Free State. The six-fingered title character of a novel by this author lives at the Hanuman House with the Tulsi family. For 10 points, name this Trinidadian author of Miguel Street and A House for Mr. Biswas. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 120.50 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 115.27 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 0% | 128.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 108.50 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.40 |
| North | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 0% | 103.25 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.40 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 123.00 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 9% | 100.30 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.50 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 102.56 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.75 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 111.86 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 109.86 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU B | 67 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley B | 82 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | CWRU C | 82 | -5 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Kenyon A | 82 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | OSU B | 82 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech A | 82 | 10 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | Catholic University | 82 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Georgetown A | 82 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Columbia B | 82 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU A | 82 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago B | 82 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Chicago A | 82 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Amherst B | 82 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | MIT B | 82 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Brown A | 82 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst A | Williams | 82 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | British Columbia B | 82 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | British Columbia C | 82 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | UAB A | 82 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 82 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto E | 83 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue A | 83 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | Alberta | 83 | 10 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 84 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Queen's B | 84 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Tusculum | 84 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Iowa | 84 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech C | 84 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Toronto I | 85 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Notre Dame E | 85 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago C | 85 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | UIC | 85 | 10 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | BC B | 85 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 89 | -5 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | WashU C | 92 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | UCSC | 93 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton | Toronto K | 93 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 95 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | UCO | 96 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSB | 104 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina A | 104 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Michigan D | 104 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | Simon Fraser | 104 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Alberta B | 104 | 10 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech B | Mississippi State A | 104 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Ohio | 105 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | Missouri B | 107 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Bowdoin B | 107 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | OSU D | CWRU D | 108 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn B | 108 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley F | 111 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 111 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Kentucky | 111 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 111 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 113 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Iowa State | 113 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Queen's A | 114 | -5 |
| William Groger | Princeton A | Lehigh B | 114 | 10 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota A | Macalester B | 114 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCI | 115 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason C | 118 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Huntsville B | 118 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Michigan C | 119 | -5 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Pitt C | 121 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | Claremont Scripps | 122 | 10 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | UTD B | 122 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McGill C | 123 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto G | 123 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Virginia B | 123 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Penn A | 123 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Brandeis Orlando | 123 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh A | 125 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF E | 126 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | South Carolina B | 126 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Roanoke | 126 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | MSU B | 127 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | George Washington B | 129 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto F | 130 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 130 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF A | 130 | 10 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | Clemson B | 130 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | James Madison | 130 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | William Woods | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Purdue C | 130 | 10 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | BU | 130 | -5 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | Rochester | 130 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | MSU A | 131 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Vassar A | 131 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Northwestern B | 132 | 10 |
| Blake Enwiller | Vanderbilt A | Sewanee A | 132 | -5 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | RIT A | 132 | -5 |
| Ben Lanahan | Clemson A | Tennessee B | 133 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 133 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth | Tufts B | 133 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Huntsville A | 133 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | NC State | 136 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Toronto J | 137 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 140 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western Ontario | Guelph B | 140 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph A | 140 | 0 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | McMaster C | 140 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | FSU | 140 | 0 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | ERAU A | 140 | 0 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | Melbourne A | 140 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | FIU | 140 | 0 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | USF | 140 | 0 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | ERAU B | 140 | 0 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | OSU A | 140 | 0 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | Penn B | 140 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland D | George Washington A | 140 | 0 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Rutgers C | 140 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | WashU C | 140 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | WashU D | 140 | 10 |
| Matthew Wozniak | Michigan C | Louisville B | 140 | 0 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown B | 140 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Wilson | Yale B | 140 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Rose State | 140 | 10 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | UTD A | 140 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech D | 140 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton A | 140 | 0 |