In a story by this author, a college student shares an emotionally intimate night with the girl Margaret while driving home for winter vacation. This author curated the anthology The Best American Short Stories of the Century, penned the story “The Happiest I’ve Been,” and wrote three collections about the writer Henry Bech. A story by this author ends with the protagonist reflecting on “how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter” as he stands in a parking lot, unable to find characters nicknamed Plaid, Queenie, and Big Tall Goony-Goony. The protagonist abruptly quits when his boss Lengel chews out three girls for shopping in bathing suits in this author’s story “A&P.” For 10 points, what author created the former high school basketball star Harry Angstrom in Rabbit, Run? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.67 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 30% | 113.63 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 106.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 108.38 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 105.60 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 115.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 109.50 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 124.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 103.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 43 | -5 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | MIT | 48 | -5 |
| Ali Hamzeh | Edinburgh A | Oxford C | 50 | -5 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Maryland C | 56 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida A | 69 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto E | 73 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Purdue B | 74 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | Carleton University | 74 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Harvard B | 74 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Northwestern C | 77 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 81 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis A | 81 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Claremont | 81 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago D | 82 | -5 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Vassar | 88 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 91 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins B | 91 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Rochester | 91 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 91 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | Cambridge B | 92 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 92 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 92 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Tennessee A | 92 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | CWRU B | 94 | -5 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech C | Alabama B | 96 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Carleton College | 99 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Murray State A | 99 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 100 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 106 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago B | 106 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 108 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Cardiff | 109 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Illinois B | 109 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Indiana B | 109 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McGill A | 109 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Washington A | 109 | 10 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Texas B | 109 | -5 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge C | Imperial C | 111 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | John Jay | 112 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Sewanee | 112 | -5 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan State | 113 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 113 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Dartmouth B | 113 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech D | 113 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Western B | 114 | -5 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Ohio State A | 114 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin A | 114 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 117 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Birmingham | 125 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | NYU C | 126 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell B | 126 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Tennessee B | 126 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Iowa State | 127 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Edinburgh B | 128 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Waterloo B | 128 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago C | 128 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Columbia C | 128 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Western A | 128 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Bowdoin B | 128 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol | 129 | -5 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western C | 129 | -5 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Vanderbilt B | 130 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto C | 131 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | UCL | 131 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | McGill B | 131 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Toronto Metropolitan | 131 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan A | 132 | 0 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Oxford A | 132 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Oxford B | 132 | 0 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | City St. George's | 132 | 0 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Imperial A | 132 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Southampton B | 132 | 0 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton B | Imperial B | 132 | 0 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Cambridge A | 132 | 0 |
| Jack Trott-McDermott | Western C | McMaster A | 132 | 0 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster B | 132 | 10 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Indiana C | 132 | 10 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Binghamton B | 132 | 0 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell A | 132 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Dartmouth A | 132 | 0 |
| Henry Jiang | MIT | Southern Connecticut State | 132 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A&M A | 132 | 10 |