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 |
| 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 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Tennessee A | 92 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | Cambridge B | 92 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 92 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 92 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | CWRU B | 94 | -5 |
| Zach Tseng | Georgia Tech C | Alabama B | 96 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Murray State A | 99 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Carleton College | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Indiana B | 109 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Dartmouth B | 113 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 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 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Western A | 128 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago C | 128 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Bowdoin B | 128 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Columbia C | 128 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Waterloo B | 128 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Edinburgh B | 128 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western C | 129 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Bristol | 129 | -5 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Vanderbilt B | 130 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto C | 131 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | McGill B | 131 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Toronto Metropolitan | 131 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | UCL | 131 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan A | 132 | 0 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Dartmouth A | 132 | 0 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A&M A | 132 | 10 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Binghamton B | 132 | 0 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell A | 132 | 0 |
| Jack Trott-McDermott | Western C | McMaster A | 132 | 0 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster B | 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 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Indiana C | 132 | 10 |
| Henry Jiang | MIT | Southern Connecticut State | 132 | 10 |