Season 2 Level D Week 2
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | newspapers | Pop Culture & Sports | Pranav Veluri |
  
| Indiana | Fr. | .574 | 17 |
| 2 | Chief Joseph | History | Mazin Omer |
 
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .419 | 15 |
| 3 | 3 | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .586 | 17 |
| 4 | Phillips curve | Social Science | Chris Given |
| Louisiana | Jr. | .796 | 20 |
| 5 | Ambrose (Everett) Burnside | History | Venu Reddy |
| Louisiana | Jr. | .487 | 16 |
| 6 | Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem | Science & Math | John Marvin Sipp |
| Illinois | Grad. | .790 | 20 |
| 7 | Qatar | Current Events | Sarod Nori |
| Illinois | So. | .801 | 20 |
| 8 | Philistines | Literature | Jonathan Suh |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .666 | 18 |
| 9 | neutrinos | Science & Math | James E. Lasker |
| Illinois | Grad. | .882 | 20 |
| 10 | The Dark Side of the Moon | Pop Culture & Sports | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | Sr. | .815 | 20 |
| 11 | French language | Literature | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .866 | 20 |
| 12 | Meditations | Social Science | Eric Wolfsberg |
| Delaware | Sr. | .683 | 18 |
| 13 | Samuel de Champlain | History | Rudra Ranganathan |
| Michigan | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .755 | 19 |
| 14 | Nevada | Current Events | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .605 | 17 |
| 15 | sperm whale | Science & Math | Chauncey Lo |
| New York | So. | .599 | 17 |
| 16 | Frank Lloyd Wright | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .664 | 18 |
| 17 | Sherman | History | Trevor Davis |
| Canada | Grad. | .492 | 16 |
| 18 | Jhumpa Lahiri | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .855 | 20 |
| 19 | gallbladder | Science & Math | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .668 | 18 |
| 20 | Canada | Current Events | Christopher Sims |
| Canada | Sr. | .838 | 20 |
| 21 | Andes Mountains | Geography | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .756 | 19 |
| 22 | James Clerk Maxwell | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .563 | 17 |
| 23 | Gunga Din | Literature | Lloyd Sy |
| Virginia | Grad. | .531 | 16 |
| 24 | Seoul | Geography | Jonathan Suh |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .716 | 19 |
| 25 | Cleveland Cavaliers | Pop Culture & Sports | Sam Rombro |
| Arizona | Grad. | .763 | 19 |
| 26 | Ajax | Literature | Rudra Ranganathan |
| Michigan | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .705 | 19 |
| 27 | Cambridge Analytica Ltd. | Current Events | James Rowan |
| California | Grad. | .304 | 13 |
| 28 | Alfred the Great | History | Sam Ferguson |
| South Carolina | Sr. | .767 | 19 |
| 29 | E. B. White | Literature | Jeremy Tsai |
| Maryland | Grad. | .518 | 16 |
| 30 | chirality | Science & Math | David Bass |
| Virginia | Fr. | .793 | 20 |
| 31 | Qin Dynasty | History | Jonathan Suh |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .798 | 20 |
| 32 | John (Burke) Krasinski | Pop Culture & Sports | Pranav Veluri |
| Indiana | Fr. | .613 | 17 |
| 33 | Romney | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Fr. | .820 | 20 |
| 34 | general relativity | Science & Math | Daniel Hothem |
| Oregon | Grad. | .790 | 20 |
| 35 | Greek language | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .586 | 17 |
| 36 | Vienna | History | Matthew Hoffer-Hawlik |
| Virginia | Grad. | .644 | 18 |
| 37 | Erik Satie | Fine Arts | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .502 | 16 |
| 38 | iron | Science & Math | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .813 | 20 |
| 39 | This Is Just to Say | Literature | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .840 | 20 |
| 40 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Geography | Sam Ferguson |
| South Carolina | Sr. | .861 | 20 |
| 41 | Spartacus | History | Varun Sikand |
| Connecticut | So. | .831 | 20 |
| 42 | Andrew (Newell) Wyeth | Fine Arts | Thomas Gioia |
| Massachusetts | So. | .655 | 18 |
| 43 | To an Athlete Dying Young | Literature | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .816 | 20 |
| 44 | sets | Science & Math | Chris Given |
| Louisiana | Jr. | .832 | 20 |
| 45 | colors | Fine Arts | William Golden |
| Texas | Fr. | .837 | 20 |
| 46 | Massachusetts | History | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .667 | 18 |
| 47 | No Exit | Literature | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Fr. | .747 | 19 |
| 48 | weak nuclear force | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Fr. | .861 | 20 |
| 49 | Snake River | Geography | Alex Li |
| Texas | Sr. | .771 | 20 |
| 50 | Botswana | History | Alex Li |
| Texas | Sr. | .886 | 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.