The title character of a novel by this author hallucinates a son appearing in the backseat of his Chevrolet Cruze and names him “Sancho.” This author wrote about the agents Chekhov and Zulu in a story collection that also describes a man’s descent into insanity after finding the title “Prophet’s Hair.” In a novel by this author, Sam DuChamp creates the character Ismail Smile, who adopts the title persona to woo Salma R. A character in a novel by this author acts as a dog for a military unit, but guides them into the Sundarbans. In that novel by this author, the protagonist is helped by Parvati-the-Witch before the destruction of a slum and his subsequent capture by the government of the Widow, a representation of Indira Gandhi. For 10 points, name this author who described Saleem Sinai in Midnight’s Children. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 106.67 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 122.20 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 140.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 111.60 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.88 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.17 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 62.75 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 112.29 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.88 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 112.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Carleton College | 35 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Claremont | 36 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Georgia Tech D | 41 | 10 |
| Jaime Sneed | Sewanee | Louisville B | 49 | -5 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins A | 58 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Columbia C | 63 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago D | 65 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Oxford C | 65 | 10 |
| Lucas Barnes | Missouri B | Washington A | 66 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | CWRU A | 67 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 68 | -5 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington B | Iowa State | 68 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 70 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Cambridge B | 72 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan State | 77 | -5 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Toronto Metropolitan | 80 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | McMaster B | 80 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis A | 91 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 91 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins B | 91 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Durham | 93 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Stanford B | 94 | -5 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida A | 94 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Bowdoin B | 94 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A | 94 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | LSE | 94 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore | NYU C | 94 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Rochester | 99 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Maryland C | 100 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell B | RIT | 100 | 10 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Toronto G | 106 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 106 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Purdue A | 106 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Dartmouth B | 106 | 10 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 106 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Birmingham | 106 | 10 |
| Mehmet Tatoglu | Oxford A | Bristol | 106 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Catholic | 106 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Vassar | 106 | 10 |
| Tobias Zajac | Michigan State | Michigan C | 107 | 10 |
| Henry Jiang | MIT | Southern Connecticut State | 108 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford A | Berkeley D | 109 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Ottawa | 109 | 10 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Chicago A | 109 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Illinois C | 109 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Harvard B | 109 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A&M A | 109 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Tennessee A | 109 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Cambridge C | 109 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | John Jay | 109 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Toronto E | 111 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Georgia Tech C | 111 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Missouri B | 112 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 112 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | City St. George's | 115 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Indiana C | 119 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Northwestern C | 127 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Western B | 130 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | UBC B | 137 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | McGill A | 137 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | McGill B | 137 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western C | 137 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU B | 137 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Chicago C | 137 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Vanderbilt B | 137 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Montpellier | 137 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | Western A | 138 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Central Florida A | Central Florida B | 139 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Indiana B | 139 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Southampton A | 140 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Southampton B | 140 | 10 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Binghamton B | 140 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 141 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida B | 141 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Central Florida C | 141 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Pittsburgh | 141 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin A | 141 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Sewanee | 141 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Tennessee B | 141 | 10 |