Season 2 Level B Week 1
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Achilles | Literature | Christopher Gismondi |
  
| Michigan | .572 | 17 |
| 2 | velocity | Science & Math | Jason Lai |
| New York | .442 | 15 |
| 3 | (Stephen) Grover Cleveland | History | Dargan Ware |
  
| Alabama | .802 | 20 |
| 4 | Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant | Current Events | Tyler Vaughan |
 
| Illinois | .823 | 20 |
| 5 | A Doll’s House | Literature | Lee Henry |
| Alabama | .721 | 19 |
| 6 | horses | Fine Arts | Parikshit Chauhan |
| Washington | .783 | 20 |
| 7 | diamond(s) | Science & Math | Michael Tolan |
| Massachusetts | .740 | 19 |
| 8 | Mark (Elliot) Zuckerberg | Current Events | Tyler Vaughan |
| Illinois | .818 | 20 |
| 9 | Henry Ford | History | Tyler Vaughan |
| Illinois | .694 | 19 |
| 10 | bassoon | Fine Arts | Alan Rosenthal |
| California | .769 | 20 |
| 11 | Tibet | Geography | Andy Wehrman |
| Michigan | .785 | 20 |
| 12 | Whiskey Rebellion | History | Andy Wehrman |
| Michigan | .747 | 19 |
| 13 | Mike Pompeo | Current Events | Dargan Ware |
| Alabama | .704 | 19 |
| 14 | Paradise Lost | Literature | Arthur Walden Lechner |
| North Carolina | .738 | 19 |
| 15 | flying fish | Science & Math | Andy Wehrman |
| Michigan | .715 | 19 |
| 16 | George Gershwin | Fine Arts | Innis Carson |
| United Kingdom | .706 | 19 |
| 17 | ghettos | History | Andrew Morin |
| New York | .574 | 17 |
| 18 | The Owl | Literature | Traci Whitehead |
| United Kingdom | .778 | 20 |
| 19 | three | Science & Math | Lee Henry |
| Alabama | .771 | 20 |
| 20 | William the Conqueror | History | Nicholas Harding |
| Virginia | .792 | 20 |
| 21 | Turkey | Social Science | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .793 | 20 |
| 22 | Franz Kafka | Literature | Isaac Hirsch |
| California | .555 | 17 |
| 23 | pituitary gland | Science & Math | Shane Whitlock |
| Arkansas | .605 | 17 |
| 24 | Shah(s) of Iran | History | Andrew Morin |
| New York | .711 | 19 |
| 25 | Sinai Peninsula | Geography | Alan Rosenthal |
| California | .589 | 17 |
| 26 | Edwin (Powell) Hubble | Science & Math | Tyler Vaughan |
| Illinois | .803 | 20 |
| 27 | Robert (Lee) Frost | Literature | Greg Peterson |
| Iowa | .845 | 20 |
| 28 | Hungary | Current Events | Ozzie Fallick |
| California | .627 | 18 |
| 29 | Simone (Arianne) Biles | Pop Culture & Sports | Martin Ocon |
| Georgia | .820 | 20 |
| 30 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or U.K. | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Parikshit Chauhan |
| Washington | .826 | 20 |
| 31 | Geoffrey Chaucer | Literature | Eric Douglass |
| South Carolina | .573 | 17 |
| 32 | Quebec City | History | Alex Connor |
| Ohio | .755 | 19 |
| 33 | American Gothic | Fine Arts | Lee Henry |
| Alabama | .612 | 17 |
| 34 | Catch–22 | Literature | Lars Melton |
| Virginia | .781 | 20 |
| 35 | titration | Science & Math | Mike Hundley |
| Virginia | .855 | 20 |
| 36 | New Zealand | Geography | Tyler Vaughan |
| Illinois | .896 | 20 |
| 37 | Lakshmi | Literature | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .407 | 15 |
| 38 | Stanley Milgram | Social Science | Tyler Vaughan |
| Illinois | .861 | 20 |
| 39 | Cleopatra | History | John Hanna |
| North Carolina | .754 | 19 |
| 40 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Literature | Brad Williams |
| Wisconsin | .612 | 17 |
| 41 | Porifera or sponges | Science & Math | Michael Laudermith |
| Illinois | .597 | 17 |
| 42 | Progressive | Pop Culture & Sports | Jimmy Wilkinson |
| Maryland | .781 | 20 |
| 43 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literature | Brad Williams |
| Wisconsin | .786 | 20 |
| 44 | Joseph Stalin | History | Wesley Mathews |
| Arizona | .756 | 19 |
| 45 | angles | Science & Math | Ben Kirk |
| New York | .729 | 19 |
| 46 | Hispaniola | Geography | Andrew Morin |
| New York | .795 | 20 |
| 47 | Guitar Hero | Pop Culture & Sports | Janet Berry |
| Virginia | .730 | 19 |
| 48 | Isaac Newton | Science & Math | Jimmy Li |
| California | .823 | 20 |
| 49 | Andrew Jackson | History | Geoffrey McGee |
| North Carolina | .840 | 20 |
| 50 | Moses | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Matthew Greenbacker |
| Connecticut | .741 | 19 |
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.