A woman in this novel recounts a childhood memory of buying apricots with her friend when they could not afford entry to a visiting circus. At the start of this novel, a boy ignores instructions to wait in a store when his cat gets stuck up a telegraph pole. After his friend Amédée dies of appendicitis, a would-be law student in this novel has an affair with a married woman, whose husband kills them under a white mulberry tree. This novel’s protagonist is kind to the elderly, mystical animal lover Crazy Ivar. This novel’s two main siblings, who respectively fall in love with Marie Shabata and Carl Linstrum, are named Emil and Alexandra. For 10 points, a Nebraska farm is the setting of what novel about the Swedish-American Bergson family by Willa Cather? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 106.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 133.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 133.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 104.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 22% | 112.43 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 22% | 114.29 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 99.60 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 109.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 43% | 85.00 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 0% | 127.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 109.83 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 86.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | Rochester | 44 | -5 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Vassar | 45 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 48 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 48 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton B | 48 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 51 | 10 |
| Ben Newman | Duke | James Madison B | 52 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin B | 52 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois B | Chicago A | 53 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Stanford B | 54 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD B | 54 | -5 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Alabama A | 57 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 58 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago C | 67 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee B | 71 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Tennessee A | 72 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | Cornell C | 77 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 78 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Indiana C | 78 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 78 | -5 |
| William Day | Murray State A | Texas B | 78 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 89 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 91 | -5 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 91 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | NYU A | 91 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | NC State A | 93 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland B | 98 | -5 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech C | 104 | -5 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Catholic | 104 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Columbia B | 104 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU C | 111 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Chicago B | 112 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Sewanee | 115 | -5 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley D | Berkeley C | 117 | -5 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | Liberty A | 121 | -5 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 121 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick B | 121 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Louisville A | 123 | 10 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Washington B | 124 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | RIT | 124 | -5 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 127 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 127 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton College | 127 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 129 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | North Carolina B | 129 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Purdue A | 129 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Warwick A | 129 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 130 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 132 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brown | 132 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 133 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | Arizona State | 133 | 0 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD C | 133 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UC Irvine | 133 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 133 | 0 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UCLA A | 133 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Central Florida B | 133 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | Central Florida A | Florida C | 133 | 0 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida A | 133 | 0 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 133 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 133 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State C | 133 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 133 | 0 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | Liberty C | 133 | 0 |
| Samanyu Dixit | North Carolina C | VCU | 133 | 10 |
| Dan Rajaratnam | NC State B | James Madison A | 133 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 133 | 0 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech B | 133 | 10 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | William and Mary | 133 | 0 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Northwestern B | 133 | 10 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Chicago E | 133 | 0 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Illinois B | 133 | 0 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Northwestern C | 133 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Purdue B | 133 | 0 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Illinois C | 133 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 133 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 133 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard B | 133 | 0 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 133 | 0 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton College | Iowa State | 133 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama B | 133 | 0 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Louisville B | 133 | 0 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Cardiff | 133 | 0 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Edinburgh A | 133 | 0 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Montpellier | 133 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 133 | 0 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | John Jay | 133 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | NYU B | 133 | 0 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Johns Hopkins A | 133 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers B | 133 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Swarthmore | 133 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton A | 133 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | Cornell A | 133 | 0 |