In a novel set in this city, a man tries to track down his missing wife by assuming the identity of his half-brother and continuing his newspaper column. A fictional historian who first appeared in the novel Silent House writes the preface for the frame narrative of a novel set in this city where a pretend doctor spends six years building a weapon. After visiting this city’s treasury, an investigator comes to a conclusion about who drew some sketches of horses with large nostrils in the Chinese style. The unnamed narrator is enslaved under the eccentric polymath Hoja in this city in the novel The White Castle. A novel set in this city opens with the narrative of Elegant Effendi, who has just been murdered and stuffed into a well. For 10 points, name this city that was the setting of several Orhan Pamuk novels, including My Name is Red. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.67 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 129.33 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 121.18 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 114.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 124.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.38 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 115.25 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 110.43 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 117.18 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.13 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 105.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell B | 24 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto Metropolitan | 27 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Northwestern D | 27 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 41 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Swarthmore | 41 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | Toronto B | 62 | -5 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Georgia Tech A | 62 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 63 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Indiana B | 67 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Missouri B | 68 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida A | 69 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Guelph | 78 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 78 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 79 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 80 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCLA B | 80 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial B | 80 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 83 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Western C | 83 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | UBC A | 86 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 86 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Bristol | 88 | 10 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Imperial A | 90 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 97 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Vassar | 97 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 97 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | NYU B | 99 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 99 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 100 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge B | 100 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 100 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 100 | 10 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | Manchester | 100 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 106 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Northwestern B | 110 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Oxford C | 112 | -5 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Kentucky | 116 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Columbia B | 119 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | Arizona State | 119 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UC Santa Barbara | 119 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster A | 119 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 119 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 119 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Alabama B | 119 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Michigan C | 122 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Indiana C | 122 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Carleton College | 124 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 124 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 124 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | Waterloo B | 129 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Southampton A | 129 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech D | 134 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Florida C | 135 | -5 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Chicago E | 143 | 10 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | RIT | 143 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | McGill B | 143 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Warwick B | 143 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | Michigan State | 144 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland B | 144 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 144 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Carleton University | 145 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Claremont | 145 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | City St. George's | 146 | 10 |
| Max Polsky | Western B | Toronto F | 150 | 0 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto F | Western B | 150 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 150 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 150 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Chicago D | 150 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Catholic | 150 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 150 | 0 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Rochester | 150 | 0 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 150 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 150 | 0 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | UC Irvine | 150 | 0 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCLA A | 150 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Waterloo A | 150 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Sewanee | 150 | 10 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | Vanderbilt B | 150 | 0 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee B | 150 | 0 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Birmingham | 150 | 10 |
| David Vellojin | Western A | Toronto D | 150 | 0 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto D | Western A | 150 | 0 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida B | 150 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Oxford B | 150 | 0 |