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 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Washington B | 69 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Mississipi State | 69 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Alabama A | 69 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Columbia C | 69 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Indiana B | 92 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brown | 92 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Bowdoin B | 92 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Georgia Tech C | 92 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan State | 121 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | CWRU A | 121 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Southern Connecticut State | 121 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Alabama B | 121 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville B | 121 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Montpellier | 121 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech B | WashU B | 122 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Manchester | 123 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Arizona State | 124 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | City St. George's | 124 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Maryland B | 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 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Cardiff | 132 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Imperial A | 132 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UCSD C | 133 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 134 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto F | 134 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Dartmouth B | 134 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Edinburgh B | 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 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Northwestern D | 137 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Claremont | 137 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan A | 138 | 10 |
| Scarlett Strickland | Columbia C | John Jay | 138 | 10 |
| Sonia Zhang | Western A | UBC A | 139 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | James Madison B | 139 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | North Carolina C | 139 | 10 |
| David Ropp | Duke | NC State A | 139 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | Duke | 139 | 0 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Purdue A | 139 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | MIT | 139 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Bowdoin A | 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 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Oxford A | 139 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Southampton B | 139 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Johns Hopkins B | 139 | 0 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Swarthmore | 139 | 10 |