In a story by this author, a narrator who resides on the fictional island of Desolation must extract a mysterious substance from Holywell Cave so that four other men don’t desire his wife Maggie. An anecdote by this author describes his surprise at the corporate bureaucracy that left a recipe for varnish unchanged. In an autobiographical story, this author recognizes his former colleague Müller based on his characteristic spellings and is shocked when Müller innocently asks this author “Why are you so perturbed?” This author is given courage by a companion with whom he partners to steal supplies to make cigarette lighters. The final story in this author’s most famous collection narrates the cyclical journey of a single carbon atom. For 10 points, name this Italian chemist, Auschwitz survivor, and writer of The Periodic Table. ■END■
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 100.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 7 | 57% | 0% | 14% | 118.75 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 126.33 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 129.33 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 127.40 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 109.45 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 122.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis B | 52 | -5 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Cambridge B | 52 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Oxford A | 62 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | Birmingham | 63 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 77 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | CWRU A | 77 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Georgetown | 99 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 101 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago A | 104 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Virginia | 106 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Chicago C | 108 | 10 |
| Lucy Dennett | Warwick B | Oxford B | 108 | -5 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | Maryland A | 119 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | LSE | 119 | -5 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 122 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Indiana A | 124 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton B | 125 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 126 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | Alabama B | 126 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Warwick A | 126 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Cambridge C | 126 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Durham | 126 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU | Liberty A | 127 | -5 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Louisville A | 127 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Mississipi State | 127 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Tennessee B | 127 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland B | 127 | 10 |
| Francesca O'Connor | Bristol | Manchester | 127 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Northwestern D | 128 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Dartmouth A | 128 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 128 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Vassar | 128 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Edinburgh B | 128 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 130 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Sewanee | 130 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina C | South Carolina A | 130 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Southern Connecticut State | 132 | 10 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Purdue B | 134 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis B | Yale | 134 | 0 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois A | 134 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Oxford C | 134 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 135 | 0 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Rutgers A | 135 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State | CWRU B | 135 | 0 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan State | 135 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | James Madison B | 135 | 0 |
| Becca Wu | James Madison B | Liberty C | 135 | 0 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | VCU | 135 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | Liberty B | 135 | 0 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | James Madison A | 135 | 0 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Tennessee A | 135 | 0 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Louisville B | 135 | 0 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Warwick B | 135 | 0 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic | NYU C | 135 | 0 |
| Pranay Malhotra | NYU C | Catholic | 135 | 0 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Wake Forest | 135 | 0 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | South Carolina B | 135 | 0 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina B | NC State A | 135 | 0 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | North Carolina B | 135 | 0 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 135 | 10 |