In Black Boy, an editorial against this author inspires a young Richard Wright to obsessively read books by this author from his public library. The careers of several hardboiled fiction writers were launched by this author and George Jean Nathan’s pulp magazine Black Mask. This author lambasted the Puritan influence on writers like Mark Twain in an essay included in A Book of Prefaces. This author criticized J. Gordon Coogler’s poetry to open an essay that mocks the South as a cultural “Sahara of the Bozart.” This author of The American Language is the model for the cynical E. K. Hornbeck in Lawrence and Lee’s play Inherit the Wind, which was based on an event at which this journalist reported. For 10 points, the name “Scopes Monkey Trial” was coined by what “Sage of Baltimore”? ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UCSD B | 11 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Birmingham | 69 | -5 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Northwestern B | 82 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Bowdoin A | 82 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | McGill B | 85 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 85 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago C | 85 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | McGill A | 85 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Virginia Tech B | 85 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Missouri A | 85 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Bristol | 85 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCSD A | 90 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Ottawa | 91 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Manchester | 94 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Simon Fraser | 97 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin B | 97 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh B | 100 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Virginia Tech A | 102 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | McMaster A | 106 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Queen's | 118 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Northwestern C | 119 | -5 |
| Adam Hermann | Notre Dame B | Northwestern D | 119 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois B | 119 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brown | 119 | -5 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton College | 119 | -5 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Montpellier | 119 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty C | 120 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | MIT | 129 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Claremont | 131 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Toronto F | 134 | 10 |
| Max Kurzman | North Carolina C | Liberty A | 134 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Toronto Metropolitan | 135 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto D | 135 | 0 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Brock | 135 | 0 |
| Raymond Ha | Chicago E | Indiana B | 135 | 0 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana B | Chicago E | 135 | 0 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Purdue B | 135 | 0 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Purdue A | 135 | 0 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Harvard B | 135 | 0 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Brandeis A | 135 | 0 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Yale | 135 | 0 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Chicago D | 135 | 0 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Chicago B | 135 | 0 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 135 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Oxford C | 135 | 0 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Southampton B | 135 | 0 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Warwick B | 135 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State | UC Santa Barbara | 135 | 0 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | Arizona State | 135 | 0 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | Western B | 135 | 0 |
| Max Polsky | Western B | Toronto G | 135 | 0 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | VCU | 135 | 0 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU | South Carolina A | 135 | 0 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | South Carolina B | 135 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Iowa State | 135 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Cardiff | 135 | 0 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Imperial C | 135 | 0 |