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 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Northwestern B | 48 | 10 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Cardiff | 48 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | John Jay | 48 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brown | 48 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick B | 93 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 93 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Catholic | 94 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 94 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago C | 95 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Vassar | 95 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton A | 99 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 99 | 10 |
| William Day | Murray State A | Texas B | 99 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Florida C | 100 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton B | 100 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 100 | 10 |
| Ben Newman | Duke | James Madison B | 100 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 102 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Cornell C | 102 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Birmingham | 117 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 117 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississipi State | 117 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 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 |
| Winston Fugate | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 145 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Rochester | 145 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 145 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | James Madison A | 145 | 10 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | William and Mary | 145 | 0 |