American Literature Special
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanche DuBois | Drama | Dylan Minarik |
  
| Wisconsin | .885 | 20 |
| 2 | Mark Twain | Nonfiction | Martin Ocon |
| Georgia | .838 | 20 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln | Poetry | Yousuf Rizvi |
| Utah | .846 | 20 |
| 4 | Young Goodman Brown | Short Stories | Dylan Minarik |
| Wisconsin | .788 | 20 |
| 5 | A Raisin in the Sun | Drama | Aayush Rajasekaran |
| Canada | .832 | 20 |
| 6 | Cormac McCarthy | Novels | Stephen Liu |
| California | .862 | 20 |
| 7 | (Francis) Bret Harte | Short Stories | Christopher Gismondi |
| Michigan | .821 | 20 |
| 8 | Truman (Garcia) Capote | Nonfiction | Aayush Rajasekaran |
| Canada | .765 | 19 |
| 9 | The Sun Also Rises | Novels | Greg Peterson |
| Iowa | .642 | 18 |
| 10 | O. Henry | Short Stories | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .869 | 20 |
| 11 | Judy Blume | - | Carrie Pruett |
| Virginia | .821 | 20 |
| 12 | New Orleans | Novels | Aayush Rajasekaran |
| Canada | .792 | 20 |
| 13 | The Lottery | Short Stories | Natalie Schermer |
| Washington | .819 | 20 |
| 14 | J. D. Salinger | Short Stories | Aayush Rajasekaran |
| Canada | .820 | 20 |
| 15 | Octavia (Estelle) Butler | Genre | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .788 | 20 |
| 16 | Sylvia Plath | Poetry | Stephen Liu |
| California | .667 | 18 |
| 17 | Amy Tan | Novels | Aayush Rajasekaran |
| Canada | .798 | 20 |
| 18 | Danielle Steel | Genre | Cody Vest |
| Arkansas | .895 | 20 |
| 19 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Nonfiction | Martin Ocon |
| Georgia | .741 | 19 |
| 20 | The Sound and the Fury | Novels | Quinn Whitlow |
| Minnesota | .695 | 19 |
| 21 | Usher | Short Stories | Dylan Minarik |
| Wisconsin | .546 | 17 |
| 22 | (the) Stage Manager | Drama | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .750 | 19 |
| 23 | Carl (August) Sandburg | Poetry | Aidan Mehigan |
| New Jersey | .780 | 20 |
| 24 | houses | Novels | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .774 | 20 |
| 25 | mountains | - | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .756 | 19 |
| 26 | Edward Albee | Drama | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .704 | 19 |
| 27 | Williams | Poetry | Stephen Liu |
| California | .742 | 19 |
| 28 | Owl Creek Bridge | Short Stories | Neil Gurram |
| California | .600 | 17 |
| 29 | August Wilson | Drama | Aayush Rajasekaran |
| Canada | .796 | 20 |
| 30 | Rabbit Angstrom | Novels | Eric Adams |
| Georgia | .806 | 20 |
| 31 | Hatchet | - | Dylan Minarik |
| Wisconsin | .446 | 15 |
| 32 | Stephen (Edwin) King | Genre | McKinnie Lee Sizemore |
| Florida | .802 | 20 |
| 33 | Henry David Thoreau | Nonfiction | JinAh Kim |
| Virginia | .765 | 19 |
| 34 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Novels | Joey Goldman |
| United Kingdom | .543 | 17 |
| 35 | mouse | - | Arthur Walden Lechner |
| North Carolina | .866 | 20 |
| 36 | Dune | Genre | Chris Ottolino |
| Missouri | .842 | 20 |
| 37 | Ralph (Waldo) Ellison | Novels | Ankit Aggarwal |
| California | .828 | 20 |
| 38 | Helen (Adams) Keller | Drama | Peter Bergman |
| Ohio | .551 | 17 |
| 39 | horses | - | Stephen Liu |
| California | .769 | 19 |
| 40 | John | Novels | Benji Nguyen |
| Texas | .783 | 20 |
| 41 | (John) Michael Crichton | Genre | Alan Rosenthal |
| California | .721 | 19 |
| 42 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Poetry | Anderson Wang |
| Maryland | .698 | 19 |
| 43 | The Feminine Mystique | Nonfiction | Susan Bickford |
| North Carolina | .564 | 17 |
| 44 | Toni Morrison | Novels | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .805 | 20 |
| 45 | Maya Angelou | Poetry | Susan Bickford |
| North Carolina | .700 | 19 |
| 46 | Florida | - | Joey Goldman |
| United Kingdom | .873 | 20 |
| 47 | Carson McCullers | Novels | Aayush Rajasekaran |
| Canada | .691 | 18 |
| 48 | The New Colossus | Poetry | Arthur Walden Lechner |
| North Carolina | .746 | 19 |
| 49 | Herman Melville | - | Dylan Minarik |
| Wisconsin | .658 | 18 |
| 50 | Edith Wharton | Novels | Adam Silverman |
| Illinois | .750 | 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.