American Literature Special
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanche DuBois | Drama | Jisoo Yoo |
 
| Texas | 11th | .881 | 20 |
| 2 | Mark Twain | Nonfiction | Nikita Nair |
 
| Texas | 10th | .767 | 19 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln | Poetry | Raymond Wang |
 
| New York | 12th | .773 | 20 |
| 4 | Young Goodman Brown | Short Stories | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 11th | .818 | 20 |
| 5 | A Raisin in the Sun | Drama | James Orefice |
| Virginia | 11th | .830 | 20 |
| 6 | Cormac McCarthy | Novels | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 10th | .852 | 20 |
| 7 | (Francis) Bret Harte | Short Stories | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 10th | .840 | 20 |
| 8 | Truman (Garcia) Capote | Nonfiction | Arthur Delot-Vilain |
| District of Columbia | 11th | .902 | 20 |
| 9 | The Sun Also Rises | Novels | Nathan Sheffield |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .597 | 17 |
| 10 | O. Henry | Short Stories | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 10th | .659 | 18 |
| 11 | Judy Blume | - | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 10th | .628 | 18 |
| 12 | New Orleans | Novels | Raymond Wang |
| New York | 12th | .788 | 20 |
| 13 | The Lottery | Short Stories | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 11th | .803 | 20 |
| 14 | J. D. Salinger | Short Stories | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 10th | .841 | 20 |
| 15 | Octavia (Estelle) Butler | Genre | Luke Henson |
| Colorado | 11th | .823 | 20 |
| 16 | Sylvia Plath | Poetry | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .811 | 20 |
| 17 | Amy Tan | Novels | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 10th | .676 | 18 |
| 18 | Danielle Steel | Genre | Adithya Madduri |
| Tennessee | 9th | .873 | 20 |
| 19 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Nonfiction | Alexander Clarke |
| Arizona | 11th | .674 | 18 |
| 20 | The Sound and the Fury | Novels | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .827 | 20 |
| 21 | Usher | Short Stories | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 10th | .558 | 17 |
| 22 | (the) Stage Manager | Drama | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .520 | 16 |
| 23 | Carl (August) Sandburg | Poetry | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 10th | .637 | 18 |
| 24 | houses | Novels | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 10th | .819 | 20 |
| 25 | mountains | - | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 11th | .812 | 20 |
| 26 | Edward Albee | Drama | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .799 | 20 |
| 27 | Williams | Poetry | Caitlyn Begosa |
| Michigan | 10th | .938 | 20 |
| 28 | Owl Creek Bridge | Short Stories | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 10th | .610 | 17 |
| 29 | August Wilson | Drama | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 10th | .798 | 20 |
| 30 | Rabbit Angstrom | Novels | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .670 | 18 |
| 31 | Hatchet | - | William Orr |
| Virginia | 10th | .460 | 15 |
| 32 | Stephen (Edwin) King | Genre | Shourjo Ganguli |
| Ohio | 10th | .818 | 20 |
| 33 | Henry David Thoreau | Nonfiction | Elle Lee |
| Virginia | 9th | .751 | 19 |
| 34 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Novels | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 11th | .593 | 17 |
| 35 | mouse | - | Elle Lee |
| Virginia | 9th | .599 | 17 |
| 36 | Dune | Genre | Nathan Comeaux |
| Texas | 10th | .706 | 19 |
| 37 | Ralph (Waldo) Ellison | Novels | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 11th | .815 | 20 |
| 38 | Helen (Adams) Keller | Drama | Jonathan Shauf |
| North Carolina | 12th | .716 | 19 |
| 39 | horses | - | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 10th | .611 | 17 |
| 40 | John | Novels | Connor Mayers |
| Pennsylvania | 12th | .807 | 20 |
| 41 | (John) Michael Crichton | Genre | Nathan Comeaux |
| Texas | 10th | .517 | 16 |
| 42 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Poetry | Raymond Wang |
| New York | 12th | .667 | 18 |
| 43 | The Feminine Mystique | Nonfiction | Ellie Crane |
| Alabama | 10th | .584 | 17 |
| 44 | Toni Morrison | Novels | Jisoo Yoo |
| Texas | 11th | .808 | 20 |
| 45 | Maya Angelou | Poetry | Elle Lee |
| Virginia | 9th | .718 | 19 |
| 46 | Florida | - | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 11th | .868 | 20 |
| 47 | Carson McCullers | Novels | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 10th | .776 | 20 |
| 48 | The New Colossus | Poetry | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 11th | .540 | 17 |
| 49 | Herman Melville | - | Arthur Delot-Vilain |
| District of Columbia | 11th | .662 | 18 |
| 50 | Edith Wharton | Novels | Raymond Wang |
| New York | 12th | .802 | 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.