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 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Chicago A | 104 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Cambridge C | 126 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | Durham | 126 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Warwick A | 126 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Louisville A | 127 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Mississipi State | 127 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU | Liberty A | 127 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Tennessee B | 127 | 10 |
| Francesca O'Connor | Bristol | Manchester | 127 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland B | 127 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Dartmouth A | 128 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 128 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Northwestern D | 128 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Edinburgh B | 128 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Vassar | 128 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Sewanee | 130 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 130 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina C | South Carolina A | 130 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Southern Connecticut State | 132 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis B | Yale | 134 | 0 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois A | 134 | 10 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Purdue B | 134 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Oxford C | 134 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State | CWRU B | 135 | 0 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan State | 135 | 0 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Tennessee A | 135 | 0 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Louisville B | 135 | 0 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Rutgers A | 135 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Indiana B | 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 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Warwick B | 135 | 0 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic | NYU C | 135 | 0 |
| Pranay Malhotra | NYU C | Catholic | 135 | 0 |