A character partly named for one of these objects inspired a tradition of poems including Richard the Redeless and the polemical Jack Upland. A poem partly titled for one of these objects inspired the title of a play featuring the priggish Mrs. Grundy by Thomas Morton. A character named for one of these objects appears after speeches by the Seven Deadly Sins in the fifth passus of a poem from the Alliterative Revival. David Mamet’s play about the movie producer Bobby Gould takes its title from a Middle English poem that asks God to “speed” one of these objects. A Christ-like character named for using this object is seen in dream visions by the narrator in a poem by William Langland. For 10 points, what sort of implement appears in the surname of the Middle English character Piers? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 118.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 67% | 0% | 25% | 114.88 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 134.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 114.14 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 93.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 99.33 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 117.25 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.57 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 0% | 47.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Michigan A | 45 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell B | 47 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | Toronto B | 65 | -5 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Imperial A | 71 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | NYU B | 80 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Missouri B | 81 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Rutgers A | 82 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 83 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Northwestern D | 93 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Brock | 94 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago C | 94 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama A | 94 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Vassar | 94 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | CWRU A | 95 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 97 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 97 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCLA B | 98 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Toronto E | 98 | 10 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | Toronto C | 98 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 98 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Chicago D | 98 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Illinois B | 98 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Indiana B | 98 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Iowa State | 98 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 98 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Alabama B | 98 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Georgia Tech D | 98 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge B | 98 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | LSE | 98 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Columbia C | 98 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU C | 98 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Johns Hopkins B | 98 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Swarthmore | 98 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 100 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Washington A | 100 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 100 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Kentucky | 100 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Northwestern B | 101 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Manchester | 102 | 10 |
| James Carrick-Lawson | Southampton B | Cambridge C | 104 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster A | 105 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 109 | 10 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | McGill A | 110 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Oxford C | 119 | 10 |
| Yash Modi | Western B | Toronto F | 120 | -5 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Birmingham | 120 | -5 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | UBC A | 123 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Cambridge A | 127 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida A | 131 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Indiana C | 135 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | City St. George's | 137 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | Southampton A | 137 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 138 | 0 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | UC Irvine | 138 | 0 |
| March Delfin | UCSD B | UC Santa Barbara | 138 | 0 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD A | 138 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UCSD B | 138 | 0 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Guelph | 138 | 0 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | UBC B | 138 | 0 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto G | McGill B | 138 | 0 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Toronto G | 138 | 0 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Waterloo A | 138 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto F | Western B | 138 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | McMaster B | 138 | 10 |
| Alan Zhang | UBC A | Queen's | 138 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | Western A | 138 | 0 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western A | Toronto D | 138 | 0 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 138 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | CWRU B | 138 | 10 |
| Faith Magiera | Northwestern D | Illinois A | 138 | 0 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Chicago E | 138 | 10 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | Chicago A | 138 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont | Washington B | 138 | 0 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Claremont | 138 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Sewanee | 138 | 0 |
| Sarah Yates | Vanderbilt B | Tennessee B | 138 | 0 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Vanderbilt B | 138 | 0 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Edinburgh B | 138 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Montpellier | 138 | 0 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Durham | 138 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Imperial C | 138 | 10 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Binghamton A | 138 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 138 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell A | 138 | 0 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 138 | 0 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Rochester | 138 | 0 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | RIT | 138 | 0 |