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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee B | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 95 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Stanford B | 95 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Vassar | 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 |
| Ben Newman | Duke | James Madison B | 100 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Florida C | 100 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 100 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton B | 100 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 102 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 102 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Cornell C | 102 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 105 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD A | 105 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers 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 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississipi State | 117 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Birmingham | 117 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 117 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD C | 118 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech C | 119 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Montpellier | 119 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Iowa State | 119 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Missouri B | 119 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama B | 122 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 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 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | James Madison A | 145 | 10 |
| Winston Fugate | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 145 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 145 | 0 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Florida A | 145 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 145 | 10 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | William and Mary | 145 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Rochester | 145 | 10 |