Season 2 Level D Week 1
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albania | History | Natan Holtzman |
  
| California | Grad. | .677 | 18 |
| 2 | natural selection | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .855 | 20 |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | Current Events | Trevor Davis |
 
| Canada | Grad. | .454 | 15 |
| 4 | snow | Literature | Chandler West |
| Alabama | Sr. | .789 | 20 |
| 5 | Once Upon a Mattress | Pop Culture & Sports | Halle Friedman |
| Illinois | Sr. | .287 | 13 |
| 6 | activation energy | Science & Math | Alex Li |
 
| Texas | Sr. | .818 | 20 |
| 7 | Colombia | Geography | Jonathan Suh |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .632 | 18 |
| 8 | villages | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Eric Bobrow |
| Maryland | Grad. | .705 | 19 |
| 9 | The Hollow Men | Literature | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | Fr. | .620 | 18 |
| 10 | Missouri | Geography | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Fr. | .551 | 17 |
| 11 | 1,024 | Science & Math | Swapnil Garg |
| Massachusetts | So. | .536 | 16 |
| 12 | Frederick | History | William Golden |
| Texas | Fr. | .709 | 19 |
| 13 | Symphonie fantastique (épisode de la vie d’un artiste, Op. 14) | Fine Arts | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .775 | 20 |
| 14 | Death in Venice | Literature | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Fr. | .793 | 20 |
| 15 | Rina Sawayama | Pop Culture & Sports | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .579 | 17 |
| 16 | rigid | Science & Math | Eric Bobrow |
| Maryland | Grad. | .568 | 17 |
| 17 | Dublin | Geography | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .834 | 20 |
| 18 | urn(s) | Literature | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | Fr. | .620 | 18 |
| 19 | basalt | Science & Math | Jay Mikel Misuk |
| Canada | Grad. | .675 | 18 |
| 20 | San Francisco, California | Current Events | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .867 | 20 |
| 21 | Basques | Social Science | Jonathan Suh |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .612 | 17 |
| 22 | Henry (Morton) Stanley | History | Varun Sikand |
| Connecticut | So. | .498 | 16 |
| 23 | Walter Gropius | Fine Arts | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .787 | 20 |
| 24 | Young's double-slit experiment | Science & Math | Matt Mitchell |
| Colorado | Sr. | .726 | 19 |
| 25 | Roger B(rooke) Taney | History | Varun Sikand |
| Connecticut | So. | .682 | 18 |
| 26 | Olympia | Fine Arts | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .837 | 20 |
| 27 | rhinoceroses or rhinos | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Jonathan Suh |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .747 | 19 |
| 28 | Macedon | History | Varun Sikand |
| Connecticut | So. | .683 | 18 |
| 29 | The Purloined Letter | Literature | Lloyd Sy |
| Virginia | Grad. | .761 | 19 |
| 30 | myelin | Science & Math | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .784 | 20 |
| 31 | France | History | Kevin Fan |
| Canada | Fr. | .732 | 19 |
| 32 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Literature | Lloyd Sy |
| Virginia | Grad. | .650 | 18 |
| 33 | Andromeda Galaxy | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .824 | 20 |
| 34 | Giancarlo Stanton | Pop Culture & Sports | Jake Sundberg |
| Louisiana | Grad. | .879 | 20 |
| 35 | (Nixon’s) Checkers speech | History | Varun Sikand |
| Connecticut | So. | .827 | 20 |
| 36 | harmonic | Science & Math | Swapnil Garg |
| Massachusetts | So. | .810 | 20 |
| 37 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Literature | Eric Bobrow |
| Maryland | Grad. | .783 | 20 |
| 38 | Cadmus | Literature | Jonathan Suh |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .859 | 20 |
| 39 | Brazil | History | John Marvin Sipp |
| Illinois | Grad. | .702 | 19 |
| 40 | Germany | Literature | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .781 | 20 |
| 41 | Josh (James) Brolin | Pop Culture & Sports | Lloyd Sy |
| Virginia | Grad. | .657 | 18 |
| 42 | Manchester | History | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .862 | 20 |
| 43 | reverse transcriptase | Science & Math | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | So. | .772 | 20 |
| 44 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or U.K. | Social Science | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .593 | 17 |
| 45 | David Hume | Social Science | Varun Sikand |
| Connecticut | So. | .829 | 20 |
| 46 | Bhutan | Geography | John Marvin Sipp |
| Illinois | Grad. | .685 | 18 |
| 47 | C (natural) | Fine Arts | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .700 | 19 |
| 48 | The Daily Telegraph | Current Events | Laura Cooper |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .445 | 15 |
| 49 | Ku Klux Klan | History | Waley He |
| Missouri | Fr. | .684 | 18 |
| 50 | Romeo and Juliet | Literature | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | Fr. | .593 | 17 |
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.