This short story begins on December 3rd, as the wind changes to an east wind. In this story, the protagonist’s wife asks, “Surely America will do something?”, which goes unanswered. At the end of this story, the protagonist wonders “how many million years of memory” are stored in “those little brains.” In this story, the radio broadcasts a National Emergency proclamation before no more transmissions are heard. The protagonist of this story visits Mr. Trigg’s farm, having realized that humans are safe during low tide. This story ends with Nat Hocken smoking his last cigarette as he hears “splintering wood” from the title animals tearing down his door. For 10 points, name this story by Daphne du Maurier in which the title animals begin attacking humans, which was adapted into a film by Alfred Hitchcock. ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Birmingham | 26 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford A | 47 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 55 | 10 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Northwestern D | 60 | -5 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | William and Mary | 61 | -5 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | McGill A | 64 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State | UC Santa Barbara | 66 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD B | 66 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Toronto B | 66 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brown | 66 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis B | 66 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Yale | 66 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia | 75 | 10 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Toronto Metropolitan | 77 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Purdue A | 84 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge B | 87 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Toronto E | 90 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin A | 90 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Chicago B | 91 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | McGill B | 98 | 10 |
| James Carrick-Lawson | Southampton B | Oxford B | 99 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty C | 103 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Northwestern B | 108 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Virginia Tech B | 110 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 110 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago E | 111 | -5 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCSD A | 117 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | UBC B | 117 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Montpellier | 117 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Warwick A | 117 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto D | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago A | 119 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Claremont | 119 | 10 |
| Frances Hadley | Edinburgh A | Bristol | 121 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 121 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh B | 121 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Toronto F | 122 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Harvard B | 122 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Imperial C | 123 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | Arizona State | 124 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina C | 125 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | South Carolina A | 125 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Purdue B | 125 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Warwick B | 125 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Iowa State | 128 | 10 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | UCSD C | 131 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Imperial B | 132 | 10 |
| Adil Haider | McMaster A | Guelph | 133 | 10 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto G | Western B | 134 | 10 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Oxford C | 134 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Simon Fraser | 135 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Queen's | 135 | 10 |
| Dan Rajaratnam | NC State B | Liberty B | 135 | 0 |
| Abby Keith | Liberty B | NC State B | 135 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | North Carolina B | 135 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago C | 135 | 10 |
| Connor Blake | Chicago B | Chicago D | 135 | 10 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago E | Indiana B | 135 | 10 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Notre Dame B | 135 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin B | 135 | 0 |