Season 1 Level C Week 1
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ronald (Wilson) Reagan | History | Nathan Finn |
  
| New York | Fr. | .705 | 19 |
| 2 | (George) Orson Welles | Pop Culture & Sports | Nick Jensen |
 
| California | Grad. | .821 | 20 |
| 3 | Saint Petersburg | Geography | Christopher Sims |
| Canada | Sr. | .809 | 20 |
| 4 | alpha particles | Science & Math | Ankush Bajaj |
| Rhode Island | Sr. | .858 | 20 |
| 5 | Japan | History | Emmett Laurie |
| New Jersey | Sr. | .815 | 20 |
| 6 | Long Day’s Journey Into Night | Literature | David Bass |
| Virginia | Fr. | .731 | 19 |
| 7 | Milky Way | Literature | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .868 | 20 |
| 8 | Sir Walter Raleigh | History | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .843 | 20 |
| 9 | ATP or adenosine triphosphate | Science & Math | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | So. | .789 | 20 |
| 10 | Morocco | Geography | James Hadley |
| New Jersey | So. | .822 | 20 |
| 11 | ambassador | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Michael Donnelly |
| Illinois | Fr. | .850 | 20 |
| 12 | Michael (Rubens) Bloomberg | Current Events | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .583 | 17 |
| 13 | Hermes | Literature | Leah Honsinger |
| Florida | Sr. | .833 | 20 |
| 14 | Lincoln family | History | Nathan Finn |
| New York | Fr. | .844 | 20 |
| 15 | private detective | Literature | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | So. | .773 | 20 |
| 16 | e | Science & Math | Swapnil Garg |
| Massachusetts | So. | .807 | 20 |
| 17 | Vincent (Willem) van Gogh | Fine Arts | Jonathan Caldwell |
| Tennessee | So. | .755 | 19 |
| 18 | A Tale of Two Cities | Literature | Ankush Bajaj |
| Rhode Island | Sr. | .713 | 19 |
| 19 | World War I | History | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .883 | 20 |
| 20 | nematoda | Science & Math | Ankush Bajaj |
| Rhode Island | Sr. | .488 | 16 |
| 21 | Das Kapital | Social Science | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .881 | 20 |
| 22 | Vasco da Gama | History | Robert Chu |
| Maryland | Grad. | .799 | 20 |
| 23 | Roderick Usher | Literature | Irit Huq-Kuruvilla |
| California | Grad. | .680 | 18 |
| 24 | HTML | Science & Math | Chris Given |
| Louisiana | Jr. | .584 | 17 |
| 25 | Cambodia | Geography | Parth Jagtap |
| Canada | Fr. | .736 | 19 |
| 26 | Cavalier(s) | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Halle Friedman |
| Illinois | Sr. | .638 | 18 |
| 27 | The Pirates of Penzance | Fine Arts | Andrew Stelzer |
| Wisconsin | Jr. | .795 | 20 |
| 28 | Sicily | History | Varun Sikand |
| Connecticut | So. | .905 | 20 |
| 29 | Bell | Science & Math | Buduka Ogonor |
| Illinois | So. | .781 | 20 |
| 30 | Alaska | Geography | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .764 | 19 |
| 31 | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Literature | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | Fr. | .819 | 20 |
| 32 | Paraguay | History | Lucas Smith |
| Canada | Fr. | .710 | 19 |
| 33 | pressure | Science & Math | Eric Fowler |
| Florida | Fr. | .876 | 20 |
| 34 | South Africa | Literature | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | Fr. | .814 | 20 |
| 35 | California | Current Events | Blake Andert |
| Minnesota | Jr. | .760 | 19 |
| 36 | Betty Friedan | Social Science | Sean Ye |
| California | Fr. | .758 | 19 |
| 37 | Yom Kippur | Social Science | William Grossman |
| Florida | So. | .790 | 20 |
| 38 | matrices | Science & Math | Sean Ye |
| California | Fr. | .866 | 20 |
| 39 | George Orwell | Literature | Lalit Maharjan |
| Indiana | Jr. | .652 | 18 |
| 40 | Leonard Bernstein | Fine Arts | Swapnil Garg |
| Massachusetts | So. | .649 | 18 |
| 41 | rock and roll | Pop Culture & Sports | Michael Donnelly |
| Illinois | Fr. | .828 | 20 |
| 42 | Saudi Arabia | Current Events | Eric Bobrow |
| Maryland | Grad. | .812 | 20 |
| 43 | catalysts or catalytic substances or catalytic agents | Science & Math | Alex Li |
| Texas | Sr. | .890 | 20 |
| 44 | Cornelius Vanderbilt | History | James E. Lasker |
| Illinois | Grad. | .846 | 20 |
| 45 | Analects | Literature | Andy Huff |
| Illinois | Jr. | .623 | 18 |
| 46 | (residual) strong nuclear force | Science & Math | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .844 | 20 |
| 47 | Kingdom of Egypt | Pop Culture & Sports | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .826 | 20 |
| 48 | Henrik (Johan) Ibsen | Literature | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .732 | 19 |
| 49 | Maximilien de Robespierre | History | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .884 | 20 |
| 50 | carbon dioxide | Science & Math | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .842 | 20 |
Celerity is the fraction of the question that had not been read at the time of a buzz (for which a correct answer was provided). 1.000 is an immediate buzz, .500 is an answer given halfway through the question in terms of time on the sound recording, and .000 is an answer given at the very end.