This person clashed with director Peter Berg after being brought on to the film Hancock for several rewrites of the original concept. This person got a job writing for showrunner Chris Carter after submitting a fan-script about a killer shadow that became the episode “Soft Light.” A show created by this person includes a cameo of John Cena explaining human-derived protein. A show created by Peter Gould and this person has several black-and-white flashforward sequences set at a Cinnabon in Omaha. A show created by this person stars Rhea Seehorn (“RAY SEE-horn”) as a writer of romantasy novels. The last season of a show created by this person included the acclaimed episode “Ozymandias” and concluded with a scene set to the song “Baby Blue.” For 10 points, name this creator of the Albuquerque-set shows Pluribus, Better Call Saul, and Breaking Bad. ■END■
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 68.75 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 75.82 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 70.00 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 77.00 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 74.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.88 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Michigan C | 21 | -5 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol | Imperial C | 29 | -5 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCLA A | 41 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Waterloo A | 43 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Imperial A | 43 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Western B | 54 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto C | 57 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Dartmouth B | 58 | 10 |
| Michael Durrant | Ohio State C | Ohio State B | 59 | 10 |
| Ethan Ririe | UCSD C | Arizona State | 60 | 10 |
| Jack Trott-McDermott | Western C | Guelph | 60 | 10 |
| Noah Lee | Western A | McMaster A | 60 | 10 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Bristol | 60 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar | Catholic | 60 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 63 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Johns Hopkins B | 63 | 10 |
| Alex Bellon | UCSD A | UCSD B | 69 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan B | 69 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 72 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis B | Southern Connecticut State | 72 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | UBC A | 74 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | John Jay | 74 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Rutgers B | 74 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | CWRU A | 75 | 10 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore | Johns Hopkins A | 78 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | UBC B | McMaster B | 80 | 10 |
| Jack Feinberg | Brandeis A | Bowdoin A | 80 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Cambridge B | Durham | 80 | 10 |
| Asher Lyons | Maryland C | NYU A | 80 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill A | Toronto D | 83 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Cambridge C | 83 | 10 |
| Pranay Malhotra | NYU C | Columbia C | 83 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 84 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | LSE | 86 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Rutgers A | 87 | 10 |
| Luke Robitaille | MIT | Harvard A | 89 | 10 |
| Audrey Evans | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 89 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | City St. George's | 95 | 10 |
| Brook Issayas | UC Irvine | UC Santa Barbara | 105 | 10 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Toronto F | 112 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's | Toronto G | 139 | 10 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Brandeis A | 139 | 0 |