Valerie Purton argued that a literary “tradition” described by this adjective was continued by Charles Dickens to accentuate his darker or comic scenes. Oliver Goldsmith criticized comedies described by this adjective as “the most easily written” in an essay that contrasts them with “laughing” comedies. A novel whose title contains this adjective ends mid-sentence as the protagonist catches hold of a chambermaid. This adjective describes a popular genre of emotionally expressive novels in the 18th and 19th centuries such as The Man of Feeling and The Vicar of Wakefield. A novel about Parson Yorick’s travels by Laurence Sterne is titled for this type of “Journey.” For 10 points, Gustave Flaubert’s novel about Frédéric Moreau is titled for what sort of “Education”? ■END■
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 98.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 29% | 95.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 0% | 86.14 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 88.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 8% | 80.90 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 82.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | Liberty C | 24 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Edinburgh A | 30 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU B | 53 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Illinois A | 56 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech B | 57 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Yale | 57 | -5 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Chicago C | 58 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Mississipi State | 61 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Southampton A | 61 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 61 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Virginia | 62 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard B | 64 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Warwick B | 71 | 10 |
| Hadley Green | Northwestern B | Chicago D | 73 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin A | 77 | 10 |
| Francesca O'Connor | Bristol | Manchester | 77 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Southampton B | 77 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Illinois B | 80 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Imperial A | 81 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State C | 83 | 10 |
| Renita Tang | NYU C | Catholic | 87 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | CWRU A | 88 | -5 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Montpellier | 88 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Vassar | 88 | 10 |
| Taylor Smallacombe | VCU | Liberty A | 90 | -5 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown | Rutgers A | 92 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | Cambridge A | 93 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Cardiff | 97 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Alabama B | 99 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland B | 101 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 102 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Purdue B | 104 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis B | 104 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Alabama A | 104 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Oxford C | 104 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Dartmouth A | 107 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Sewanee | 107 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Birmingham | 107 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 110 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame B | 111 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | VCU | 115 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | North Carolina C | 120 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Tennessee A | 120 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins B | 120 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Pittsburgh | 121 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | James Madison B | 121 | 0 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | James Madison A | 121 | 10 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | South Carolina B | 121 | 0 |
| Fionn O'Connor | South Carolina B | Wake Forest | 121 | 0 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | NC State A | 121 | 0 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | North Carolina B | 121 | 0 |
| Annewsa Ghosh | Indiana C | Chicago E | 121 | 0 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | Northwestern D | 121 | 0 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago E | Indiana C | 121 | 0 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Northwestern C | 121 | 0 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Illinois C | 121 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | Bowdoin B | 121 | 0 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Tennessee B | 121 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Edinburgh B | 121 | 0 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Imperial B | 121 | 0 |
| Joel Dicker | Southampton B | Imperial C | 121 | 0 |