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 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 37 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 37 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto G | 37 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto D | 37 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | Toronto C | 37 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Ohio State B | 37 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Michigan State | 37 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | CWRU A | 37 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | VCU | 37 | 10 |
| Aditya Sharma | Duke | North Carolina C | 37 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | South Carolina A | 37 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 37 | 10 |
| Dwight Solano | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 37 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech B | 37 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Mississipi State | 37 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | NYU A | 37 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Johns Hopkins A | 37 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia B | Swarthmore | 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 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Chicago B | 69 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Tennessee B | 69 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | McGill B | 72 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | James Madison B | 72 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Indiana A | 72 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Washington A | 72 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech C | 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 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 95 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth A | 95 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Claremont | 95 | -5 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 95 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Toronto Metropolitan | 137 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago E | 137 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Northwestern C | 137 | 10 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Binghamton B | 137 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto F | 138 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Western A | 138 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida C | 138 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 138 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida B | 138 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | South Carolina B | 138 | 0 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Indiana C | 138 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Bowdoin B | 138 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Carleton College | 138 | 0 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Southampton B | 138 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar | Maryland C | 138 | 10 |