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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Alabama A | 69 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Mississipi State | 69 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | NYU B | 69 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | RIT | 69 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Brandeis B | 69 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Washington B | 69 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Columbia C | 69 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | NYU C | 92 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Indiana B | 92 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Bowdoin B | 92 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 96 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Murray State A | 96 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Western A | 96 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | James Madison A | 115 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Simon Fraser | 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 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville B | 121 | -5 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Alabama B | 121 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Montpellier | 121 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Southern Connecticut State | 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 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Edinburgh B | 134 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Rochester | 134 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 134 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Dartmouth B | 134 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto F | 134 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Binghamton A | 134 | -5 |
| 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 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | Duke | 139 | 0 |
| David Ropp | Duke | NC State A | 139 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | James Madison B | 139 | 10 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Purdue A | 139 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | MIT | 139 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Kentucky | 139 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Oxford A | 139 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Southampton B | 139 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Swarthmore | 139 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | North Carolina C | 139 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Bowdoin A | 139 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Missouri A | 139 | 10 |
| Sarah Yates | Vanderbilt B | Sewanee | 139 | 0 |
| Sonia Zhang | Western A | UBC A | 139 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Johns Hopkins B | 139 | 0 |