American Literature Special
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanche DuBois | Drama | Sean Ye |
  
| California | Fr. | .891 | 20 |
| 2 | Mark Twain | Nonfiction | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .786 | 20 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln | Poetry | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .784 | 20 |
| 4 | Young Goodman Brown | Short Stories | Lloyd Sy |
| Virginia | Grad. | .808 | 20 |
| 5 | A Raisin in the Sun | Drama | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .822 | 20 |
| 6 | Cormac McCarthy | Novels | William Golden |
| Texas | Fr. | .860 | 20 |
| 7 | (Francis) Bret Harte | Short Stories | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .860 | 20 |
| 8 | Truman (Garcia) Capote | Nonfiction | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | So. | .764 | 19 |
| 9 | The Sun Also Rises | Novels | Raymond Chen |
| Canada | Grad. | .666 | 18 |
| 10 | O. Henry | Short Stories | William Golden |
| Texas | Fr. | .763 | 19 |
| 11 | Judy Blume | - | Beni Keown |
| Illinois | Fr. | .373 | 14 |
| 12 | New Orleans | Novels | Rahul Keyal |
| California | Jr. | .796 | 20 |
| 13 | The Lottery | Short Stories | Jesse Gingold |
| Florida | Jr. | .829 | 20 |
| 14 | J. D. Salinger | Short Stories | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .623 | 18 |
| 15 | Octavia (Estelle) Butler | Genre | David Bass |
| Virginia | Fr. | .819 | 20 |
| 16 | Sylvia Plath | Poetry | Ryan Conti |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .803 | 20 |
| 17 | Amy Tan | Novels | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .671 | 18 |
| 18 | Danielle Steel | Genre | Jack Wolverton |
| Missouri | So. | .155 | 12 |
| 19 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Nonfiction | Jesse Gingold |
| Florida | Jr. | .578 | 17 |
| 20 | The Sound and the Fury | Novels | Lloyd Sy |
| Virginia | Grad. | .678 | 18 |
| 21 | Usher | Short Stories | Sean Ye |
| California | Fr. | .530 | 16 |
| 22 | (the) Stage Manager | Drama | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .707 | 19 |
| 23 | Carl (August) Sandburg | Poetry | Rahul Keyal |
| California | Jr. | .609 | 17 |
| 24 | houses | Novels | William Golden |
| Texas | Fr. | .697 | 19 |
| 25 | mountains | - | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .787 | 20 |
| 26 | Edward Albee | Drama | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .693 | 19 |
| 27 | Williams | Poetry | David Bass |
| Virginia | Fr. | .735 | 19 |
| 28 | Owl Creek Bridge | Short Stories | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .632 | 18 |
| 29 | August Wilson | Drama | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .774 | 20 |
| 30 | Rabbit Angstrom | Novels | Jack Wolverton |
| Missouri | So. | .672 | 18 |
| 31 | Hatchet | - | Jeremy Tsai |
| Maryland | Grad. | .427 | 15 |
| 32 | Stephen (Edwin) King | Genre | Rahul Keyal |
| California | Jr. | .808 | 20 |
| 33 | Henry David Thoreau | Nonfiction | Abbey Wilson |
| Canada | Fr. | .728 | 19 |
| 34 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Novels | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .567 | 17 |
| 35 | mouse | - | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .455 | 15 |
| 36 | Dune | Genre | Jake Sundberg |
| Louisiana | Grad. | .828 | 20 |
| 37 | Ralph (Waldo) Ellison | Novels | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .772 | 20 |
| 38 | Helen (Adams) Keller | Drama | Rahul Keyal |
| California | Jr. | .476 | 16 |
| 39 | horses | - | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Fr. | .793 | 20 |
| 40 | John | Novels | Rahul Keyal |
| California | Jr. | .898 | 20 |
| 41 | (John) Michael Crichton | Genre | Harley Andrew |
| Florida | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .587 | 17 |
| 42 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Poetry | Lloyd Sy |
| Virginia | Grad. | .717 | 19 |
| 43 | The Feminine Mystique | Nonfiction | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .571 | 17 |
| 44 | Toni Morrison | Novels | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Fr. | .815 | 20 |
| 45 | Maya Angelou | Poetry | Halle Friedman |
| Illinois | Sr. | .737 | 19 |
| 46 | Florida | - | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .767 | 19 |
| 47 | Carson McCullers | Novels | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .687 | 18 |
| 48 | The New Colossus | Poetry | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .559 | 17 |
| 49 | Herman Melville | - | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .724 | 19 |
| 50 | Edith Wharton | Novels | William Golden |
| Texas | Fr. | .833 | 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.