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 |
| Ani Perumalla | Penn State | Cornell C | 24 | -5 |
| Henry Jameson | LSE | UCL | 24 | -5 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland C | Columbia A | 39 | -5 |
| Matthew Stall | CWRU B | Ohio State B | 40 | -5 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Durham | 40 | -5 |
| Aiden Bang | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic | 40 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 40 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge A | 64 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame A | 64 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Oxford A | 65 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 65 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Notre Dame B | 65 | -5 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Maryland C | 65 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Maryland B | 65 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | RIT | 65 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Cambridge C | 68 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | South Carolina A | 68 | -5 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 68 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | LSE | 69 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 70 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Kentucky | 70 | -5 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Montpellier | 70 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Southampton B | 70 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana C | 70 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale | Bowdoin A | 70 | -5 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Southern Connecticut State | 70 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | NC State A | 70 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 71 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 72 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Wake Forest | 72 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | UBC B | 73 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Michigan State | 73 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan C | Pittsburgh | 73 | 10 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 73 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | Southampton A | 73 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State | UCSD B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Missouri B | 88 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic | Johns Hopkins B | 88 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | NC State B | 88 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Edinburgh A | 88 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 104 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Georgia Tech D | 104 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Dartmouth A | 104 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | William and Mary | 104 | 10 |
| Shreyas Rajagopal | Texas A&M A | Murray State A | 107 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | James Madison A | 111 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 112 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham | Edinburgh B | 112 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Bowdoin 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 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | WashU A | 119 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 119 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Vanderbilt B | 119 | 0 |
| Evan Roberts | Vanderbilt B | Louisville B | 119 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | NYU C | 119 | 0 |
| Alan Li | Cornell C | Penn State | 119 | 0 |