This author observed there is “just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another” in an essay of epigrams. Another epigram by this author from that essay, “Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting,” provides the title of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. This author published a mocking elegy for an astrologer whose death he predicted under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff. A digression in which a bee destroys a spider’s web interrupts this author’s depiction of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns as a literal conflict in an introduction to another work. That work is this author’s “The Battle of the Books,” which was published with A Tale of a Tub. For 10 points, name this Irish author who satirically argued for eating infants in “A Modest Proposal.” ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.75 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 116.30 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 126.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 122.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.33 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 96.71 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 115.67 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 118.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 107.50 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 113.42 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 102.17 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 116.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Birmingham | 40 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Edinburgh A | 51 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Columbia A | 51 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Purdue B | 52 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Vassar | 58 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Minnesota A | 61 | -5 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Illinois A | 64 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State C | CWRU B | 67 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 69 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan B | 69 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Columbia C | 69 | -5 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Washington B | 69 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Alabama A | 69 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Mississipi State | 69 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 69 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Indiana C | 69 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Brandeis B | 69 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | NYU B | 69 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | RIT | 69 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | NC State B | 70 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | North Carolina A | 70 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley D | 73 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Rutgers A | 75 | -5 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | Ottawa | 78 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McMaster B | 80 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 81 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 82 | -5 |
| Justin Wytmar | NYU A | Rutgers B | 84 | -5 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 89 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Bowdoin B | 92 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brown | 92 | -5 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Georgia Tech C | 92 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Indiana B | 92 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | NYU C | 92 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 96 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Western A | 96 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Murray State A | 96 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Wake Forest | 97 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Durham | 99 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto F | McMaster A | 102 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UCLA B | 112 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Simon Fraser | 115 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Carleton University | 115 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | James Madison A | 115 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida C | 116 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty C | 116 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western B | 121 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | CWRU A | 121 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan State | 121 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Montpellier | 121 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Southern Connecticut State | 121 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville B | 121 | -5 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Alabama B | 121 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech B | WashU B | 122 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester | 123 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | City St. George's | 124 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland B | 124 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Arizona State | 124 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | McGill B | 125 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech D | Tennessee B | 125 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Waterloo B | 126 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge C | 127 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Iowa State | 127 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Cornell C | 127 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Florida B | 128 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Toronto D | 130 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Chicago E | 131 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Cardiff | 132 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Imperial A | 132 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago D | 132 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UCSD C | 133 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Edinburgh B | 134 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto F | 134 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Dartmouth B | 134 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 134 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 134 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Rochester | 134 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A&M A | 135 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 135 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida A | 136 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Ohio State C | 137 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Claremont | 137 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Northwestern D | 137 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan A | 138 | 10 |
| Scarlett Strickland | Columbia C | John Jay | 138 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Oxford A | 139 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Southampton B | 139 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Johns Hopkins B | 139 | 0 |
| Sonia Zhang | Western A | UBC A | 139 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Bowdoin A | 139 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | MIT | 139 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Missouri A | 139 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Kentucky | 139 | 10 |
| Sarah Yates | Vanderbilt B | Sewanee | 139 | 0 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | Duke | 139 | 0 |
| David Ropp | Duke | NC State A | 139 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | James Madison B | 139 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | North Carolina C | 139 | 10 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Purdue A | 139 | 0 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Swarthmore | 139 | 10 |