Shakespeare Special
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titus Andronicus | Writings | Jordan Brownstein |
 
| Virginia | .904 | 20 |
| 2 | Battle of Agincourt | Writings | Emily Thorsley |
 
| California | .677 | 18 |
| 3 | India | Popular Culture | Tejas Raje |
 
| Illinois | .729 | 19 |
| 4 | The Merchant of Venice | Writings | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .849 | 20 |
| 5 | Royal Shakespeare Company | Performances | Will Howells |
| United Kingdom | .813 | 20 |
| 6 | All’s Well That Ends Well | Writings | Joseph Papke |
| Minnesota | .880 | 20 |
| 7 | Dogberry | Writings | Carrie Pruett |
| Virginia | .884 | 20 |
| 8 | Brave New World | Writings | Ryan Rosenberg |
| California | .605 | 17 |
| 9 | Cleopatra | Writings | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .893 | 20 |
| 10 | stars | Writings | Christopher Gismondi |
| Michigan | .597 | 17 |
| 11 | Kate | Popular Culture | Toby Cox |
| United Kingdom | .755 | 19 |
| 12 | Polonius | Writings | Joseph Papke |
| Minnesota | .815 | 20 |
| 13 | Windsor | Writings | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .889 | 20 |
| 14 | Judith Shakespeare | Writings | Ryan Rosenberg |
| California | .506 | 16 |
| 15 | The Comedy of Errors | Writings | Jordan Brownstein |
| Virginia | .776 | 20 |
| 16 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Writings | Neil Gurram |
| California | .812 | 20 |
| 17 | Tom Stoppard | Writings | Christopher Gismondi |
| Michigan | .880 | 20 |
| 18 | Cymbeline | Writings | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .846 | 20 |
| 19 | Troy | Writings | Matthew Marcus |
| California | .770 | 20 |
| 20 | Laurence (Kerr) Olivier | Performances | Andrew Fisher |
| United Kingdom | .690 | 18 |
| 21 | Timon of Athens | Writings | Jordan Brownstein |
| Virginia | .471 | 16 |
| 22 | summer | Writings | Ian Dewan |
| Canada | .595 | 17 |
| 23 | horses | Writings | Christopher Gismondi |
| Michigan | .801 | 20 |
| 24 | Othello | Popular Culture | John Kocsis |
| District of Columbia | .403 | 15 |
| 25 | Henry VIII | Writings | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .867 | 20 |
| 26 | Canada | Performances | Randall Eng |
| New York | .741 | 19 |
| 27 | ghost(s) | Writings | Matthew Jackson |
| District of Columbia | .841 | 20 |
| 28 | love | Writings | Tracey Hickman |
| Oklahoma | .720 | 19 |
| 29 | T. S. Eliot | Writings | Jordan Brownstein |
| Virginia | .819 | 20 |
| 30 | As You Like It | Writings | Joseph Papke |
| Minnesota | .803 | 20 |
| 31 | Bob Dylan | Popular Culture | Mike Sorice |
| Illinois | .874 | 20 |
| 32 | The Winter’s Tale | Writings | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .784 | 20 |
| 33 | Macbeth | Performances | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .829 | 20 |
| 34 | Desdemona | Writings | Benji Nguyen |
| Texas | .644 | 18 |
| 35 | (the) Sun | Writings | Michael Zhuang |
| New York | .316 | 14 |
| 36 | John | Writings | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .784 | 20 |
| 37 | Ben(jamin) Jonson | Writings | Eugene Hung |
| California | .855 | 20 |
| 38 | Caliban | Writings | Matthew Bollinger |
| Virginia | .773 | 20 |
| 39 | (The Tragedy of) Coriolanus | Writings | Matthew Bollinger |
| Virginia | .830 | 20 |
| 40 | (George) Orson Welles | Performances | Joseph Papke |
| Minnesota | .882 | 20 |
| 41 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Writings | Toby Cox |
| United Kingdom | .819 | 20 |
| 42 | Yorick | Writings | Lee Henry |
| Alabama | .790 | 20 |
| 43 | Russian | Writings | Michael Zhuang |
| New York | .783 | 20 |
| 44 | Macduff | Writings | Ian Dewan |
| Canada | .847 | 20 |
| 45 | Forbidden Planet | Popular Culture | Tom Kelso |
| New York | .744 | 19 |
| 46 | Measure for Measure | Writings | Joseph Papke |
| Minnesota | .808 | 20 |
| 47 | (King) Henry VI | Writings | Emily Thorsley |
| California | .780 | 20 |
| 48 | (King Lear’s) Fool | Writings | Carrie Pruett |
| Virginia | .811 | 20 |
| 49 | (Gaius) Julius Caesar | Writings | Jason Escandell |
| Texas | .760 | 19 |
| 50 | Bianca | Writings | Joon Pahk |
| Massachusetts | .546 | 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.