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 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 16 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Bristol | 16 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial A | 18 | -5 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | VCU | 20 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | Edinburgh A | 20 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 23 | -5 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Oxford B | 29 | -5 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 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 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge B | 45 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Durham | 45 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Carleton University | 45 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph | Toronto F | 46 | 10 |
| Nihal Jacob | Kentucky | Tennessee B | 52 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois A | 54 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | Central Florida B | Florida B | 54 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rochester | 54 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UCLA A | 54 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan C | Michigan A | 56 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 56 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | NC State B | 57 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Northwestern B | 57 | 10 |
| Zachary Bornstein | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 61 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UCLA B | 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 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 76 | 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 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 77 | 10 |
| Ani Perumalla | Penn State | Binghamton A | 77 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth B | 77 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 77 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Liberty A | 90 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 90 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Washington B | 90 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 91 | 10 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 92 | 10 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Illinois C | 93 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Edinburgh B | 93 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | UBC B | 98 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol | Warwick A | 98 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill A | Ottawa | 123 | 10 |
| June Miller | Florida A | Florida C | 126 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 126 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick B | Cambridge C | 126 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 126 | 10 |
| Rae Prince | Murray State A | Texas B | 126 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell A | Cornell B | 128 | 10 |
| Michael Durrant | Ohio State C | CWRU A | 129 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | CWRU B | 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 |
| Noah Fine | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 132 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto D | 132 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU B | Sewanee | 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 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 142 | 0 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 142 | 0 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | NC State A | 142 | 10 |
| Owen Banks | Duke | Virginia Tech A | 142 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame A | Chicago E | 142 | 0 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 142 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Penn State | 142 | 0 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 142 | 10 |