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 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 48 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Liberty A | 48 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 48 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Northwestern B | 48 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brown | 48 | -5 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Cardiff | 48 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | John Jay | 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 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | NC State A | 80 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | NYU B | 80 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCSD B | 83 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Northwestern C | 91 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin B | 91 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 91 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 93 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick B | 93 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 94 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Catholic | 94 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Stanford B | 95 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago C | 95 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 95 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee B | 95 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Vassar | 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 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 100 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton B | 100 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 102 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 102 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Cornell C | 102 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD A | 105 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 105 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers B | 105 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Indiana C | 106 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU 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 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 117 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississipi State | 117 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Birmingham | 117 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD C | 118 | 10 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Missouri B | 119 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Iowa State | 119 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech C | 119 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Montpellier | 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 Cuevas | Florida B | Florida A | 145 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida B | 145 | 0 |
| Winston Fugate | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 145 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | James Madison A | 145 | 10 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | William and Mary | 145 | 0 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 145 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Rochester | 145 | 10 |