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 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Harvard B | 74 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | Carleton University | 74 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Purdue 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 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Rochester | 91 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 91 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins B | 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 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago B | 106 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 106 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 108 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Dartmouth B | 113 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 113 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech D | 113 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan State | 113 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin A | 114 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Western B | 114 | -5 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Ohio State A | 114 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell B | 126 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | NYU C | 126 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Iowa State | 127 | 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 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Western A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Binghamton B | 132 | 0 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell A | 132 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan A | 132 | 0 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Southampton B | 132 | 0 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton B | Imperial B | 132 | 0 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Cambridge A | 132 | 0 |