The first white person to receive the death penalty in this country, Mariette Bosch, was nicknamed this country’s “White Mischief” for murdering her husband’s lover. In 1988, an Angolan military jet mistakenly shot a plane containing this country’s president Quett Masire (“mah-SEE-ray”). The Malan government threatened to cut off uranium supplies to the UK in an unsuccessful attempt to block the interracial marriage of Englishwoman Ruth Williams to this country’s first president, Sir Seretse (“seh-RET-say”) Khama. This country’s Orapa diamond mine, opened in 1971, is now the largest in the world. This country has been the oldest continuous multiparty democracy in Africa since receiving independence as Bechuanaland. For 10 points, what country led from Gaborone (“gab-oh-RO-nee”) is directly north of South Africa? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 40.50 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 72.25 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 75.40 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 87.44 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 83.38 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 96.60 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 92.50 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 90.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 105.17 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 42% | 86.17 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 66.43 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 83.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State C | Michigan B | 24 | -5 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE | UCL | 24 | -5 |
| Ani Perumalla | Penn State | Cornell C | 24 | -5 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland C | Columbia A | 39 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 40 | 10 |
| Matthew Stall | CWRU B | Ohio State B | 40 | -5 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Durham | 40 | -5 |
| Aiden Bang | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic | 40 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 41 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison A | Liberty A | 42 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Vassar | 43 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | Bristol | 44 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 52 | -5 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | Oxford C | 55 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Columbia C | 59 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont | Minnesota A | 61 | -5 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 63 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame A | 64 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge A | 64 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 65 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Notre Dame B | 65 | -5 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Oxford A | 65 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Maryland B | 65 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Maryland C | 65 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | RIT | 65 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | South Carolina A | 68 | -5 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 68 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cambridge C | 68 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | LSE | 69 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 70 | -5 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 70 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UC Santa Barbara | 70 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 70 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | NC State A | 70 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana C | 70 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale | Bowdoin A | 70 | -5 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Southern Connecticut State | 70 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Kentucky | 70 | -5 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Montpellier | 70 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Southampton B | 70 | -5 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 71 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Wake Forest | 72 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 72 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State | UCSD B | 73 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | UBC B | 73 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan C | Pittsburgh | 73 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Michigan State | 73 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Northwestern C | 73 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington A | Iowa State | 73 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 73 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Southampton A | 73 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Rutgers B | 73 | 10 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 74 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD C | 76 | 10 |
| Brodrick Tastad | VCU | Duke | 76 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Brown | 78 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Illinois C | 81 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | North Carolina C | 83 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Central Florida C | 88 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | NC State B | 88 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Missouri B | 88 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Edinburgh A | 88 | -5 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic | Johns Hopkins B | 88 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Missouri A | 90 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago E | 96 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | CWRU B | 97 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana B | Purdue B | 99 | 10 |
| Yiwei Jiang | NYU C | John Jay | 101 | -5 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Central Florida A | 103 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | William and Mary | 104 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Dartmouth A | 104 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 104 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Georgia Tech D | 104 | 10 |
| Shreyas Rajagopal | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 107 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | James Madison A | 111 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Bowdoin B | 112 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 112 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Edinburgh B | 112 | 10 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | Binghamton A | 112 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 115 | 10 |
| Rafael Castro | Imperial C | Oxford B | 116 | 10 |
| James Carrick-Lawson | Southampton B | Cardiff | 117 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Manchester | 118 | 10 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford C | Warwick B | 118 | 10 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley D | Berkeley A | 119 | 0 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Illinois A | 119 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Yale | 119 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Claremont | 119 | 10 |
| Evan Roberts | Vanderbilt B | Louisville B | 119 | 0 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 119 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Vanderbilt B | 119 | 0 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | WashU A | 119 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | NYU C | 119 | 0 |
| Alan Li | Cornell C | Penn State | 119 | 0 |