While visiting a tomb after a long boat trip, this character ponders what to eat for lunch while imagining an old woman watching over the body of her grandson. The odes written by this character were first published in the short-lived Athena magazine and were compared to Horace’s in a fake review. In a novel, this character is described as constantly carrying and reading a copy of the fictional book The God of the Labyrinth. This character confesses his relationship struggles with Lydia and Marcendo during one of his periodic conversations with his creator. In that novel, this character dies by following his creator into the grave to the “other” Lisbon. For 10 points, what heteronym of Fernando Pessoa is the subject of a novel by José Saramago titled for the year of his death? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 33% | 82.00 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 0% | 118.78 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 118.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 110.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 13% | 111.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 33% | 104.33 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 135.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 124.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 38% | 0% | 38% | 129.67 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 8% | 121.10 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 0% | 110.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 54 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 74 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Purdue A | 76 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Iowa State | 76 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Liberty A | 77 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA B | UCSD B | 82 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | UBC B | 84 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 85 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth B | 86 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Cambridge B | 93 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 101 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee A | 101 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial A | 103 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Northwestern C | 106 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Southern Connecticut State | 106 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 109 | 10 |
| Ani Perumalla | Penn State | Binghamton A | 110 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Chicago A | 113 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 115 | 10 |
| Dan Rajaratnam | NC State B | South Carolina A | 115 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 115 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Durham | 115 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Bristol | 117 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan State | 118 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago E | 118 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Brandeis A | 118 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 118 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | Toronto E | 118 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 118 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 118 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech D | 119 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | Western C | 120 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 121 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 121 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 124 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago D | 124 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Harvard B | 124 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Imperial B | 124 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 124 | -5 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph | Toronto F | 126 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | North Carolina C | 126 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Missouri A | 126 | -5 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 127 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | CWRU B | 127 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 127 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 127 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Montpellier | 127 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Warwick B | 127 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Michigan C | 131 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 134 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McGill A | 135 | 10 |
| Tobias Zajac | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 135 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | CWRU A | 135 | 0 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 135 | 0 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State B | 135 | 0 |
| John Gamble | NC State A | VCU | 135 | 0 |
| Micah Williams | VCU | NC State A | 135 | 0 |
| Winston Fugate | Wake Forest | North Carolina B | 135 | 0 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 135 | 0 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Illinois C | 135 | 0 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago B | 135 | 0 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | Chicago C | 135 | 0 |
| Alan Li | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 135 | 0 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 135 | 0 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell B | Cornell A | 135 | 0 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | Cornell B | 135 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rochester | 135 | 0 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | RIT | 135 | 0 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | Arizona State | 135 | 0 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State | UC Irvine | 135 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 135 | 0 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 135 | 0 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Georgia Tech A | 135 | 0 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Carleton College | 135 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Missouri B | 135 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Washington B | 135 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 135 | 0 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Alabama B | 135 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Louisville B | 135 | 10 |
| Noah Lee | Western A | McGill B | 135 | 0 |
| Ella Tang | McGill B | Western A | 135 | 0 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto D | McMaster B | 135 | 0 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Western B | 135 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida A | 135 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida C | 135 | 0 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Tennessee B | 135 | 0 |
| Riley Bruce | Tennessee B | Kentucky | 135 | 0 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Vanderbilt B | 135 | 0 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 135 | 0 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Birmingham | 135 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Oxford A | 135 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cardiff | 135 | 0 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Oxford B | 135 | 0 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Oxford C | 135 | 0 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Southampton B | 135 | 10 |