In a novel by this author, the smell of smoke makes a character say that his father has only succeeded in kindling “my ambition.” That protagonist of a novel by this author is frustrated when his grandson pretends to be the Lone Ranger instead of his own nation’s heroes. In another novel by this author, a woman’s claim that there is “no turning back the clock now” makes the protagonist realize that “at that moment, my heart was breaking.” The protagonist ends that novel by this author by resolving to practice “bantering” and hoping to surprise his American employer, Mr. Farraday. A novel by this author follows a motoring trip to visit Miss Kenton by the butler Stevens, who formerly served the Nazi sympathizer Lord Darlington. For 10 points, name this author of An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 63.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 84.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.25 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 105.75 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.78 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 108.33 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.25 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 110.17 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.88 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ella Warde | Warwick A | Southampton A | 42 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 46 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 47 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Purdue A | 47 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Liberty A | 48 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 48 | 10 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Cardiff | 48 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | John Jay | 48 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 48 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brown | 48 | -5 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Northwestern B | 48 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | Sewanee | 53 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago A | 54 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Central Florida B | 69 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 79 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | NYU B | 80 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | NC State A | 80 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCSD B | 83 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 91 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin B | 91 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Northwestern C | 91 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 93 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick B | 93 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Catholic | 94 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 94 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Vassar | 95 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Stanford B | 95 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee B | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 95 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago C | 95 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Illinois C | 96 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland B | 97 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 98 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 98 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 99 | 10 |
| William Day | Murray State A | Texas B | 99 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton A | 99 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Florida C | 100 | 10 |
| Ben Newman | Duke | James Madison B | 100 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton B | 100 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 100 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Cornell C | 102 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 102 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 102 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers B | 105 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD A | 105 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 105 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU C | 106 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Indiana C | 106 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Louisville A | 113 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 116 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 117 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Birmingham | 117 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 117 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississipi State | 117 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD C | 118 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Montpellier | 119 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Iowa State | 119 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Missouri B | 119 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech C | 119 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 122 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama B | 122 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Virginia | 124 | 10 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern D | Chicago E | 124 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU | North Carolina C | 131 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 145 | 0 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Florida A | 145 | 0 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | James Madison A | 145 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 145 | 10 |
| Winston Fugate | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 145 | 10 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | William and Mary | 145 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Rochester | 145 | 10 |