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 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins B | 91 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Rochester | 91 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McGill A | 109 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Illinois 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Western A | 128 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan A | 132 | 0 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Illinois A | 132 | 10 |