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 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | Carleton University | 74 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Purdue B | 74 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Harvard B | 74 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Northwestern C | 77 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis A | 81 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Claremont | 81 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 81 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago D | 82 | -5 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Vassar | 88 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 91 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 91 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins B | 91 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Rochester | 91 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 92 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 92 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Tennessee A | 92 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | Cambridge B | 92 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McGill A | 109 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Illinois B | 109 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Indiana B | 109 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Washington A | 109 | 10 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Texas B | 109 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Cardiff | 109 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Cambridge C | Imperial C | 111 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Sewanee | 112 | -5 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | John Jay | 112 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan State | 113 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Dartmouth B | 113 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech D | 113 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 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 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Tennessee B | 126 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | NYU C | 126 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell B | 126 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Iowa State | 127 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Western A | 128 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Waterloo B | 128 | -5 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago C | 128 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Bowdoin B | 128 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Edinburgh B | 128 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Columbia C | 128 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western C | 129 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol | 129 | -5 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Vanderbilt B | 130 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | McGill B | 131 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Toronto Metropolitan | 131 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto C | 131 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | UCL | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Trott-McDermott | Western C | McMaster A | 132 | 0 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster B | 132 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan A | 132 | 0 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Indiana C | 132 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Binghamton B | 132 | 0 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell A | 132 | 0 |