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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanche DuBois | Drama | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .405 | 15 |
| 2 | Mark Twain | Nonfiction | Henry Seegars |
 
| Georgia | 8th | .627 | 18 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln | Poetry | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .629 | 18 |
| 4 | Young Goodman Brown | Short Stories | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 7th | .231 | 13 |
| 5 | A Raisin in the Sun | Drama | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .649 | 18 |
| 6 | Cormac McCarthy | Novels | Conner Feng |
| California | 8th | .304 | 13 |
| 7 | (Francis) Bret Harte | Short Stories | Rohan Ramachandran |
| Tennessee | 7th | .000 | 10 |
| 8 | Truman (Garcia) Capote | Nonfiction | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 7th | .504 | 16 |
| 9 | The Sun Also Rises | Novels | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .568 | 17 |
| 10 | O. Henry | Short Stories | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .518 | 16 |
| 11 | Judy Blume | - | Rohan Ramachandran |
| Tennessee | 7th | .517 | 16 |
| 12 | New Orleans | Novels | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .304 | 13 |
| 13 | The Lottery | Short Stories | Aaditya Karnataki |
| California | 8th | .632 | 18 |
| 14 | J. D. Salinger | Short Stories | Brodie Henry |
| Alabama | 7th | .111 | 11 |
| 15 | Octavia (Estelle) Butler | Genre | Rohan Ramachandran |
| Tennessee | 7th | .337 | 14 |
| 16 | Sylvia Plath | Poetry | Brodie Henry |
| Alabama | 7th | .222 | 12 |
| 17 | Amy Tan | Novels | Rohan Ramachandran |
| Tennessee | 7th | .437 | 15 |
| 18 | Danielle Steel | Genre | Rohan Ramachandran |
| Tennessee | 7th | .777 | 20 |
| 19 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Nonfiction | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .054 | 10 |
| 20 | The Sound and the Fury | Novels | Henry Seegars |
| Georgia | 8th | .385 | 15 |
| 21 | Usher | Short Stories | Henry Seegars |
| Georgia | 8th | .248 | 13 |
| 22 | (the) Stage Manager | Drama | Brodie Henry |
| Alabama | 7th | .239 | 13 |
| 23 | Carl (August) Sandburg | Poetry | Conner Feng |
| California | 8th | .545 | 17 |
| 24 | houses | Novels | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .417 | 15 |
| 25 | mountains | - | Henry Seegars |
| Georgia | 8th | .253 | 13 |
| 26 | Edward Albee | Drama | Conner Feng |
| California | 8th | .278 | 13 |
| 27 | Williams | Poetry | Brodie Henry |
| Alabama | 7th | .253 | 13 |
| 28 | Owl Creek Bridge | Short Stories | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 7th | .473 | 16 |
| 29 | August Wilson | Drama | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 7th | .533 | 16 |
| 30 | Rabbit Angstrom | Novels | Conner Feng |
| California | 8th | .629 | 18 |
| 31 | Hatchet | - | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .483 | 16 |
| 32 | Stephen (Edwin) King | Genre | Rohan Ramachandran |
| Tennessee | 7th | .493 | 16 |
| 33 | Henry David Thoreau | Nonfiction | Henry Seegars |
| Georgia | 8th | .615 | 18 |
| 34 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Novels | Henry Seegars |
| Georgia | 8th | .350 | 14 |
| 35 | mouse | - | Abigail Lee |
| Virginia | 7th | .602 | 17 |
| 36 | Dune | Genre | Conner Feng |
| California | 8th | .405 | 15 |
| 37 | Ralph (Waldo) Ellison | Novels | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .334 | 14 |
| 38 | Helen (Adams) Keller | Drama | Abigail Lee |
| Virginia | 7th | .468 | 16 |
| 39 | horses | - | Ananya Nair |
| Texas | 6th | .592 | 17 |
| 40 | John | Novels | Conner Feng |
| California | 8th | .225 | 12 |
| 41 | (John) Michael Crichton | Genre | Henry Seegars |
| Georgia | 8th | .352 | 14 |
| 42 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Poetry | Brodie Henry |
| Alabama | 7th | .517 | 16 |
| 43 | The Feminine Mystique | Nonfiction | Rohan Ramachandran |
| Tennessee | 7th | .000 | 10 |
| 44 | Toni Morrison | Novels | Brodie Henry |
| Alabama | 7th | .526 | 16 |
| 45 | Maya Angelou | Poetry | Abigail Lee |
| Virginia | 7th | .543 | 17 |
| 46 | Florida | - | Henry Seegars |
| Georgia | 8th | .227 | 12 |
| 47 | Carson McCullers | Novels | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 7th | .015 | 10 |
| 48 | The New Colossus | Poetry | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .320 | 14 |
| 49 | Herman Melville | - | Aditya Shivaswamy |
| Texas | 8th | .347 | 14 |
| 50 | Edith Wharton | Novels | Brodie Henry |
| Alabama | 7th | .439 | 15 |
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.