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 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Columbia A | 51 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Edinburgh 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 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 69 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Indiana 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 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Columbia C | 69 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 69 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan B | 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brown | 92 | -5 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Georgia Tech C | 92 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Indiana B | 92 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Bowdoin B | 92 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | NYU C | 92 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Western A | 96 | -5 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 96 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Carleton University | 115 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Simon Fraser | 115 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | James Madison A | 115 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty C | 116 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida C | 116 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville B | 121 | -5 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Alabama B | 121 | 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 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Southern Connecticut State | 121 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Montpellier | 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 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Iowa State | 127 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge C | 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 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago D | 132 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Imperial A | 132 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Cardiff | 132 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UCSD C | 133 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 134 | -5 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto F | 134 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 134 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Dartmouth B | 134 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Edinburgh B | 134 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Rochester | 134 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Binghamton B | 135 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A&M A | 135 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida A | 136 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Ohio State C | 137 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Northwestern D | 137 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Claremont | 137 | 10 |
| Scarlett Strickland | Columbia C | John Jay | 138 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan A | 138 | 10 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Purdue A | 139 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | MIT | 139 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Missouri A | 139 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Kentucky | 139 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Johns Hopkins B | 139 | 0 |
| Sonia Zhang | Western A | UBC A | 139 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Bowdoin A | 139 | 10 |
| Sarah Yates | Vanderbilt B | Sewanee | 139 | 0 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Oxford A | 139 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Southampton B | 139 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Swarthmore | 139 | 10 |