In a story by this author, the diaries of a soon-to-be married woman reveal an obsession with an old woman in Hungary with whom she is later implied to have swapped bodies. Another story by this author follows the relationship between jazz musician Johnny Carter and his biographer Bruno in an allegory of Charlie Parker’s life. A story by this author of “The Pursuer” titles the second chapter of Giannina Braschi’s novel Yo-Yo Boing! A man sitting in a green velvet armchair reading about two lovers plotting murder turns out to be the planned victim in this author’s story “The Continuity of Parks.” This author’s story about Roberto Michel’s obsession with a photograph of a woman and teen inspired a movie of the same name by Michelangelo Antonioni. For 10 points, what Argentinian author of “Blow-Up” wrote the novel Hopscotch? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.50 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 83.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 101.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 22% | 101.14 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 11% | 99.71 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 78.20 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 121.29 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 84.63 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Central Florida B | 29 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 31 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 31 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 31 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | NYU B | 32 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton B | 47 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 48 | -5 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Washington B | 48 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Chicago A | 55 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 55 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD B | 59 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Catholic | 60 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU C | 61 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 63 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Alabama A | 72 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia B | John Jay | 81 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 81 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Cardiff | 81 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 82 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 82 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | NC State A | 85 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Swarthmore | 85 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 85 | -5 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Iowa State | 85 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 85 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Vassar | 85 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Murray State A | 86 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Indiana A | 87 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 87 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Stanford B | 90 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU | North Carolina C | 91 | 10 |
| William Henley | Illinois C | Purdue B | 96 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | Illinois A | 98 | 10 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Northwestern B | 102 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Southampton A | 102 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee B | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Newman | Duke | James Madison B | 104 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Sewanee | 106 | 10 |
| Michael Durrant | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 107 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Virginia | 107 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin B | 109 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 115 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 117 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 117 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | Liberty A | 117 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 126 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Oxford C | 127 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 127 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Imperial B | 132 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 133 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers B | 133 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Louisville A | 135 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Florida C | 138 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard B | 139 | -5 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 139 | 0 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech C | 139 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Northwestern C | 140 | 10 |
| Ruby Xia | Arizona State | UCSD C | 140 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississipi State | 140 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick B | 140 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Johns Hopkins A | 140 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Cornell C | 140 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton A | 140 | 10 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Rochester | 140 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UC Irvine | 140 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 140 | 0 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Florida A | 140 | 0 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 140 | 10 |
| Suyesh Paraju | NC State B | James Madison A | 140 | 0 |
| Jonah Chancio | James Madison A | NC State B | 140 | 0 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | North Carolina A | 140 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | North Carolina B | 140 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 140 | 0 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Chicago E | 140 | 0 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Indiana C | 140 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Tennessee A | 140 | 0 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Alabama B | 140 | 10 |