At the end of a novel set in this city, the Latin phrase “Placetne, magistra?” is used by Lord Peter Wimsey to propose to Harriet Vane. After a failed suicide attempt in this city, a man claims that “Death cancels all engagements.” News of two black owls is received as an omen by the Duke of Dorset, who leads a mass suicide in this city out of love for Zuleika Dobson. Another novel ends in this city as the Bollinger Club is heard outside Paul Pennyfeather’s window. After a luncheon in this city, The Waste Land is recited through a megaphone by Anthony Blanche. In that novel, this city is where Charles Ryder meets a character who carries the teddy bear Aloysius (“al-uh-WISH-us”). For 10 points, the opening sections of Evelyn Waugh’s novels Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited are set in what university city? ■END■
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 129.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 55% | 134.56 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 60% | 101.50 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.80 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 93.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eva West | UCL | City St. George's | 25 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Durham | 27 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 30 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Michigan C | 35 | -5 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's | Toronto G | 41 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | LSE | 41 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Columbia A | 41 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Brock | 56 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 69 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Oxford B | 70 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | John Jay | 70 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Western B | 72 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 72 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland C | 76 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Swarthmore | 83 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 86 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 87 | 10 |
| Francesca O'Connor | Bristol | Imperial C | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | MIT | 106 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western A | 117 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 120 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | McMaster B | 121 | -5 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | CWRU B | 121 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | Dartmouth B | 121 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA B | 124 | -5 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | UBC A | 124 | -5 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | Rutgers B | 127 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 129 | -5 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Rutgers A | 136 | -5 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD C | 143 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCLA A | 144 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UCSD A | 144 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Guelph | 144 | 0 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | UBC B | 144 | 10 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto D | McGill A | 144 | 0 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Waterloo A | 144 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 144 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | Waterloo B | 144 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Toronto F | 144 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | Queen's | 144 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Toronto D | 144 | 0 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Western C | 144 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State C | Ohio State B | 144 | 0 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan B | 144 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Bowdoin A | 144 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 144 | 0 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brandeis B | 144 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Brandeis A | 144 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Southern Connecticut State | 144 | 10 |
| Nate Kodama | Bowdoin B | Dartmouth A | 144 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Cambridge C | 144 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Catholic | 144 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | Columbia C | 144 | 0 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 144 | 0 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Vassar | 144 | 0 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | NYU C | 144 | 10 |