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 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCLA B | 80 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial B | 80 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 80 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Western C | 83 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU 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 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 97 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Vassar | 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 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 100 | 10 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | Manchester | 100 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge B | 100 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 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 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | Arizona State | 119 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UC Santa Barbara | 119 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster A | 119 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 119 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Columbia B | 119 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 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 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 124 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Carleton College | 124 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 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 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | McGill B | 143 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Warwick B | 143 | 10 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | RIT | 143 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Chicago E | 143 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 144 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | CWRU B | Michigan State | 144 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Maryland 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 |
| 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 |
| Max Polsky | Western B | Toronto F | 150 | 0 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto F | Western B | 150 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 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 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 150 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Oxford B | 150 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Chicago D | 150 | 10 |