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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titus Andronicus | Writings | Ethan Ashbrook |
  
| Minnesota | Fr. | .623 | 18 |
| 2 | Battle of Agincourt | Writings | Eric Rosenthal |
 
| New York | Grad. | .553 | 17 |
| 3 | India | Popular Culture | Vikshar Athreya |
 
| Washington | Jr. | .728 | 19 |
| 4 | The Merchant of Venice | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .831 | 20 |
| 5 | Royal Shakespeare Company | Performances | Tomás Aguilar-Fraga |
| California | So. | .776 | 20 |
| 6 | All’s Well That Ends Well | Writings | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .899 | 20 |
| 7 | Dogberry | Writings | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | So. | .429 | 15 |
| 8 | Brave New World | Writings | Justin French |
| California | Jr. | .598 | 17 |
| 9 | Cleopatra | Writings | Ethan Ashbrook |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .907 | 20 |
| 10 | stars | Writings | Henry Atkins |
| Canada | Grad. | .720 | 19 |
| 11 | Kate | Popular Culture | Tomás Aguilar-Fraga |
| California | So. | .732 | 19 |
| 12 | Polonius | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .672 | 18 |
| 13 | Windsor | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .789 | 20 |
| 14 | Judith Shakespeare | Writings | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | So. | .404 | 15 |
| 15 | The Comedy of Errors | Writings | Chauncey Lo |
| New York | Jr. | .800 | 20 |
| 16 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .827 | 20 |
| 17 | Tom Stoppard | Writings | Collin Ace |
| New Jersey | So. | .632 | 18 |
| 18 | Cymbeline | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .654 | 18 |
| 19 | Troy | Writings | Brandon Roe |
| Pennsylvania | Sr. | .589 | 17 |
| 20 | Laurence (Kerr) Olivier | Performances | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .387 | 15 |
| 21 | Timon of Athens | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .496 | 16 |
| 22 | summer | Writings | Christine Gu |
| Illinois | Sr. | .613 | 17 |
| 23 | horses | Writings | Jack Drummond |
| Illinois | Sr. | .419 | 15 |
| 24 | Othello | Popular Culture | Ariel Faeder |
| Pennsylvania | Fr. | .422 | 15 |
| 25 | Henry VIII | Writings | Henry Atkins |
| Canada | Grad. | .654 | 18 |
| 26 | Canada | Performances | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .637 | 18 |
| 27 | ghost(s) | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .869 | 20 |
| 28 | love | Writings | Richard Zhang |
| Iowa | So. | .652 | 18 |
| 29 | T. S. Eliot | Writings | Ariel Faeder |
| Pennsylvania | Fr. | .805 | 20 |
| 30 | As You Like It | Writings | Kenneth Martin |
| Wisconsin | Jr. | .837 | 20 |
| 31 | Bob Dylan | Popular Culture | Christine Gu |
| Illinois | Sr. | .211 | 12 |
| 32 | The Winter’s Tale | Writings | Kenneth Martin |
| Wisconsin | Jr. | .850 | 20 |
| 33 | Macbeth | Performances | Ethan Ashbrook |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .503 | 16 |
| 34 | Desdemona | Writings | Justin French |
| California | Jr. | .628 | 18 |
| 35 | (the) Sun | Writings | Collin Ace |
| New Jersey | So. | .436 | 15 |
| 36 | John | Writings | Ethan Ashbrook |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .763 | 19 |
| 37 | Ben(jamin) Jonson | Writings | Ariel Faeder |
| Pennsylvania | Fr. | .769 | 19 |
| 38 | Caliban | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .687 | 18 |
| 39 | (The Tragedy of) Coriolanus | Writings | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Jr. | .802 | 20 |
| 40 | (George) Orson Welles | Performances | Tyler McStravick |
| Texas | So. | .688 | 18 |
| 41 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Writings | Ariel Faeder |
| Pennsylvania | Fr. | .818 | 20 |
| 42 | Yorick | Writings | Justin French |
| California | Jr. | .787 | 20 |
| 43 | Russian | Writings | Ethan Ashbrook |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .596 | 17 |
| 44 | Macduff | Writings | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .842 | 20 |
| 45 | Forbidden Planet | Popular Culture | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .425 | 15 |
| 46 | Measure for Measure | Writings | Ethan Ashbrook |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .832 | 20 |
| 47 | (King) Henry VI | Writings | Justin French |
| California | Jr. | .484 | 16 |
| 48 | (King Lear’s) Fool | Writings | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .328 | 14 |
| 49 | (Gaius) Julius Caesar | Writings | Andrew Morin |
| District of Columbia | Fr. | .830 | 20 |
| 50 | Bianca | Writings | Angela Lin |
| California | Fr. | .542 | 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.