This band’s singer repeats the line “you don’t owe me anything” on a song about closeted actor Montgomery Clift. 2025 budget cuts inspired this band to re-release their lead single, which repeats “Callin’ on in transit.” A song by this band references theories about faked deaths by asking a comedian “are you goofing on Elvis?” This band took the motto of Weaver D’s diner in Athens, Georgia for the title of their album Automatic for the People. This band pauses to shout “Leonard Bernstein” on a rapid fire verse that also name-drops “Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.” A somber song by this band opens with the lyric “when your day is long.” On this band’s biggest hit, Michael Stipe sings “that’s me in the corner.” For 10 points, name this alternative band who recorded “Everybody Hurts” and “Losing My Religion.” ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 46.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 9% | 90.45 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.40 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 92.33 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 58.00 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.17 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.13 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 42% | 79.58 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 74.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Birmingham | 14 | -5 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Bristol | 16 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 16 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial A | 18 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | Edinburgh A | 20 | -5 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | VCU | 20 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 23 | -5 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 29 | -5 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Oxford B | 29 | -5 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Illinois B | 33 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Chicago A | 35 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cardiff | 35 | 10 |
| Jack Trott-McDermott | Western C | UBC A | 39 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | UCL | 39 | 10 |
| Max Kurzman | North Carolina C | William and Mary | 40 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Northwestern C | 42 | 10 |
| Violet Page | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 42 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Carleton University | 45 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge B | 45 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Durham | 45 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Toronto F | 46 | 10 |
| Nihal Jacob | Kentucky | Tennessee B | 52 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCLA A | 54 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | Central Florida B | Florida B | 54 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois A | 54 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rochester | 54 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan C | Michigan A | 56 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 56 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Northwestern B | 57 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | NC State B | 57 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UCLA B | 61 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 61 | 10 |
| Zach Kennett | Alabama B | Louisville A | 63 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 66 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 67 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech D | WashU A | 69 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | Toronto G | 72 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 72 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State | UC Irvine | 76 | 10 |
| Owen Riviere | Western B | Queen's | 76 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Carleton College | 76 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Louisville B | 76 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 76 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 77 | 10 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 77 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth B | 77 | 10 |
| Ani Perumalla | Penn State | Binghamton A | 77 | -5 |
| James Carrick-Lawson | Southampton B | City St. George's | 78 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri A | Missouri B | 79 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Oxford C | 81 | 10 |
| Jack Feinberg | Brandeis A | Brown | 86 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Georgia Tech A | 87 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 88 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Southern Connecticut State | 89 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Washington B | 90 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Liberty A | 90 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 90 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 91 | 10 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 92 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Edinburgh B | 93 | 10 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Illinois C | 93 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol | Warwick A | 98 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | UBC B | 98 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Ottawa | 123 | 10 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State A | Texas B | 126 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 126 | 10 |
| June Miller | Florida A | Florida C | 126 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 126 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick B | Cambridge C | 126 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell A | Cornell B | 128 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | CWRU B | 129 | 10 |
| Michael Durrant | Ohio State C | CWRU A | 129 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard A | Harvard B | 129 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western A | McGill B | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee A | 131 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto D | 132 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU B | Sewanee | 132 | 10 |
| Noah Fine | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 132 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Manchester | 133 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | UCSD A | 137 | 10 |
| Evan Roberts | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 137 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 142 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 142 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 142 | 0 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 142 | 0 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame A | Chicago E | 142 | 0 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | NC State A | 142 | 10 |
| Owen Banks | Duke | Virginia Tech A | 142 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Penn State | 142 | 0 |