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 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto G | 37 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | Toronto C | 37 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Toronto D | 37 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | South Carolina A | 37 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Notre Dame A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Indiana A | 72 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | James Madison B | 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth A | 95 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Claremont | 95 | -5 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Notre Dame B | 95 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Binghamton A | 95 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell C | 95 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State C | 95 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 95 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 105 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | CWRU B | 105 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech D | 105 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Washington B | 108 | 10 |
| Adam Holbrook | Wake Forest | James Madison A | 130 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Warwick B | 134 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Tennessee A | 134 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Manchester | 134 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Oxford C | 136 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Rutgers B | 136 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Vanderbilt 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 |
| 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 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Bowdoin B | 138 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Carleton College | 138 | 0 |
| Kaiden Webb | Chicago D | Indiana C | 138 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar | Maryland C | 138 | 10 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | South Carolina B | 138 | 0 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Southampton B | 138 | 10 |