A declared anti-cleric in this novel arrogantly decides to name his workplace Capharnaum after the site of some of Jesus’s miracles. This novel was the first “modern novel,” according to Mario Vargas Llosa’s book-length essay “The Perpetual Orgy.” A character in this novel writes an article that speculates its climactic event occurred from an accident while baking a cake. That character in this novel later receives the Legion of Honor for his speeches about the work of his colleagues. This was the first novel by its author that used numerous rewrites to find “Le mot juste” (“luh moh ZHOOST”). The title character of this novel throws her bridal bouquet into the fireplace after learning she is pregnant by her husband, who has a rivalry with the pharmacist Homais (“oh-MAY”). For 10 points, name this novel about a doctor’s wife by Gustave Flaubert. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 52.33 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.20 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 138.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.20 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 11% | 60.25 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.88 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.40 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 79.33 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 64.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.29 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.75 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Liberty B | 32 | 10 |
| Connor Ronan | South Carolina B | NC State A | 34 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas B | 34 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Yale | 36 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell A | 36 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 37 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 37 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Michigan State | 37 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | CWRU A | 37 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Ohio State B | 37 | 10 |
| Aditya Sharma | Duke | North Carolina C | 37 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | VCU | 37 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | South Carolina A | 37 | 10 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 37 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech B | 37 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 37 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto G | 37 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | Toronto C | 37 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto D | 37 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Mississipi State | 37 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | NYU A | 37 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia B | Swarthmore | 37 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Johns Hopkins A | 37 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cardiff | 38 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph | UBC A | 41 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Northwestern D | 42 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Maryland A | 43 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | NC State B | 49 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 54 | -5 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Missouri B | 58 | 10 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown | Catholic | 65 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | McGill A | 67 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Tennessee B | 69 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Chicago B | 69 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | James Madison B | 72 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech C | 72 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Indiana A | 72 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Washington A | 72 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | McGill B | 72 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Birmingham | 72 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Toronto E | 78 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 83 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 88 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Bowdoin A | 94 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Brandeis B | 94 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 95 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 95 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 95 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth A | 95 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Claremont | 95 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Binghamton A | 95 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell C | 95 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | CWRU B | 105 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech D | 105 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 105 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Washington B | 108 | 10 |
| Adam Holbrook | Wake Forest | James Madison A | 130 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Tennessee A | 134 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Manchester | 134 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Warwick B | 134 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Vanderbilt B | 136 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford C | 136 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Rutgers B | 136 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago E | 137 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Northwestern C | 137 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Toronto Metropolitan | 137 | 10 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Binghamton B | 137 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | South Carolina B | 138 | 0 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 138 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida B | 138 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida C | 138 | 10 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Indiana C | 138 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Bowdoin B | 138 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Carleton College | 138 | 0 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto F | 138 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Western A | 138 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Southampton B | 138 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar | Maryland C | 138 | 10 |