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 | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
  
| Massachusetts | 10th | .691 | 18 |
| 2 | (George) Orson Welles | Pop Culture & Sports | Kaushik Tota |
  
| California | 11th | .612 | 17 |
| 3 | Saint Petersburg | Geography | Henry Massey |
 
| Ohio | 12th | .755 | 19 |
| 4 | alpha particles | Science & Math | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 11th | .854 | 20 |
| 5 | Japan | History | Will McCurley |
| Alabama | 10th | .801 | 20 |
| 6 | Long Day’s Journey Into Night | Literature | Nathan Sheffield |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .595 | 17 |
| 7 | Milky Way | Literature | Kiera Spall |
| Virginia | 11th | .783 | 20 |
| 8 | Sir Walter Raleigh | History | Will McCurley |
| Alabama | 10th | .827 | 20 |
| 9 | ATP or adenosine triphosphate | Science & Math | Shahar Schwartz |
| California | 12th | .789 | 20 |
| 10 | Morocco | Geography | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 11th | .789 | 20 |
| 11 | ambassador | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Ryan Sharpe |
| Canada | 11th | .848 | 20 |
| 12 | Michael (Rubens) Bloomberg | Current Events | Joshua Rubel |
| Texas | 10th | .569 | 17 |
| 13 | Hermes | Literature | Kiera Spall |
| Virginia | 11th | .848 | 20 |
| 14 | Lincoln family | History | Lukas Koutsoukos |
| Connecticut | 9th | .843 | 20 |
| 15 | private detective | Literature | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 11th | .785 | 20 |
| 16 | e | Science & Math | Brendan White |
| Kentucky | 10th | .646 | 18 |
| 17 | Vincent (Willem) van Gogh | Fine Arts | Connor Mayers |
| Pennsylvania | 12th | .693 | 19 |
| 18 | A Tale of Two Cities | Literature | Jisoo Yoo |
| Texas | 11th | .731 | 19 |
| 19 | World War I | History | Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt |
| New York | 9th | .873 | 20 |
| 20 | nematoda | Science & Math | Kiera Spall |
| Virginia | 11th | .896 | 20 |
| 21 | Das Kapital | Social Science | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 11th | .887 | 20 |
| 22 | Vasco da Gama | History | Robert Condron |
| Texas | 12th | .773 | 20 |
| 23 | Roderick Usher | Literature | Alexander Clarke |
| Arizona | 11th | .559 | 17 |
| 24 | HTML | Science & Math | Srihari Nanniyur |
| California | 11th | .516 | 16 |
| 25 | Cambodia | Geography | Max Yang |
| Missouri | 9th | .857 | 20 |
| 26 | Cavalier(s) | Mixed & Miscellaneous | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .549 | 17 |
| 27 | The Pirates of Penzance | Fine Arts | Maia Walzer |
| New Jersey | 9th | .694 | 19 |
| 28 | Sicily | History | Kiera Spall |
| Virginia | 11th | .916 | 20 |
| 29 | Bell | Science & Math | Nathan McCarty |
| Virginia | 9th | .717 | 19 |
| 30 | Alaska | Geography | Nicholas Cerny |
| Texas | 12th | .712 | 19 |
| 31 | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Literature | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .807 | 20 |
| 32 | Paraguay | History | Basil Sousounis |
| Massachusetts | 12th | .710 | 19 |
| 33 | pressure | Science & Math | Kiera Spall |
| Virginia | 11th | .712 | 19 |
| 34 | South Africa | Literature | Suttree de Lorge |
| Alabama | 12th | .826 | 20 |
| 35 | California | Current Events | Robert Condron |
| Texas | 12th | .760 | 19 |
| 36 | Betty Friedan | Social Science | Joshua Rubel |
| Texas | 10th | .643 | 18 |
| 37 | Yom Kippur | Social Science | Shahar Schwartz |
| California | 12th | .859 | 20 |
| 38 | matrices | Science & Math | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 11th | .863 | 20 |
| 39 | George Orwell | Literature | Ian Lu |
| New York | 9th | .776 | 20 |
| 40 | Leonard Bernstein | Fine Arts | Owen Kovalik |
| Ohio | 11th | .711 | 19 |
| 41 | rock and roll | Pop Culture & Sports | Kiera Spall |
| Virginia | 11th | .884 | 20 |
| 42 | Saudi Arabia | Current Events | Will Monahan |
| District of Columbia | 12th | .783 | 20 |
| 43 | catalysts or catalytic substances or catalytic agents | Science & Math | Ketan Pamurthy |
| Texas | 11th | .908 | 20 |
| 44 | Cornelius Vanderbilt | History | Jisoo Yoo |
| Texas | 11th | .817 | 20 |
| 45 | Analects | Literature | Robert Condron |
| Texas | 12th | .836 | 20 |
| 46 | (residual) strong nuclear force | Science & Math | Ketan Pamurthy |
| Texas | 11th | .856 | 20 |
| 47 | Kingdom of Egypt | Pop Culture & Sports | Jasmine Wheeler |
| Ohio | 12th | .811 | 20 |
| 48 | Henrik (Johan) Ibsen | Literature | Nathan Sheffield |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .766 | 19 |
| 49 | Maximilien de Robespierre | History | Will McCurley |
| Alabama | 10th | .736 | 19 |
| 50 | carbon dioxide | Science & Math | Kiera Spall |
| Virginia | 11th | .860 | 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.