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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catalysts | Chemistry | Aviv Pinker |
  
| Washington | 12th | .749 | 19 |
| 2 | ionosphere | Earth Science | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .832 | 20 |
| 3 | acetylcholine | Biology | Joel Valan |
| Florida | 11th | .688 | 18 |
| 4 | derivative | Math | Nathan Sheffield |
| Massachusetts | 12th | .827 | 20 |
| 5 | entropy | Chemistry | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .920 | 20 |
| 6 | Planck’s constant | Physics | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .755 | 19 |
| 7 | Johannes Kepler | Astronomy | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .720 | 19 |
| 8 | zinc | Chemistry | Connor Blake |
| Texas | 11th | .853 | 20 |
| 9 | liver | Biology | Bianca Claros | Florida | 11th | .889 | 20 | |
| 10 | Bluetooth | Comp Sci | Pranav Sivaram |
| Ohio | 12th | .729 | 19 |
| 11 | superconductors | Physics | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 12th | .712 | 19 |
| 12 | predators | Biology | Aviv Pinker |
| Washington | 12th | .811 | 20 |
| 13 | photographs | Miscellaneous | Arjun Bothra |
| California | 12th | .455 | 15 |
| 14 | carbon dioxide | Chemistry | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .822 | 20 |
| 15 | waves | Physics | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .822 | 20 |
| 16 | placenta | Biology | Nathan Sheffield |
| Massachusetts | 12th | .921 | 20 |
| 17 | oxidation(s) or oxidation reactions | Chemistry | Pratyush Jaishanker |
| Virginia | 11th | .557 | 17 |
| 18 | pressure | Physics | Pratyush Jaishanker |
| Virginia | 11th | .799 | 20 |
| 19 | neurons | Biology | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .797 | 20 |
| 20 | convergence | Math | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .794 | 20 |
| 21 | lasers | Physics | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .786 | 20 |
| 22 | heat capacity | Chemistry | Pratyush Jaishanker |
| Virginia | 11th | .738 | 19 |
| 23 | Chordata | Biology | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .869 | 20 |
| 24 | electrons | Physics | Joel Valan |
| Florida | 11th | .868 | 20 |
| 25 | hyperbolas | Math | Pranav Sivaram |
| Ohio | 12th | .731 | 19 |
| 26 | O | Miscellaneous | Andrew Jia |
| California | 12th | .684 | 18 |
| 27 | hash function | Comp Sci | Pratyush Jaishanker |
| Virginia | 11th | .791 | 20 |
| 28 | coagulation or blood clotting | Biology | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .888 | 20 |
| 29 | mantle | Earth Science | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .689 | 18 |
| 30 | electric charge | Physics | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .840 | 20 |
| 31 | solar flares | Astronomy | Arsh Suri |
| Georgia | 10th | .559 | 17 |
| 32 | mitochondrion or mitochondria | Biology | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 12th | .716 | 19 |
| 33 | dot product | Math | Avinash Iyer |
| California | 12th | .624 | 18 |
| 34 | atomic number | Chemistry | Pratyush Jaishanker |
| Virginia | 11th | .488 | 16 |
| 35 | saliva | Biology | Ayog Prasad |
| Kentucky | 12th | .641 | 18 |
| 36 | acceleration | Physics | Nathan Sheffield |
| Massachusetts | 12th | .560 | 17 |
| 37 | calorimeter(s) | Chemistry | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .730 | 19 |
| 38 | Ruby | Comp Sci | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .625 | 18 |
| 39 | kidneys | Biology | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .865 | 20 |
| 40 | speed of light | Physics | Ketan Pamurthy |
| Texas | 12th | .857 | 20 |
| 41 | aluminum | Chemistry | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .802 | 20 |
| 42 | Nikola Tesla | Miscellaneous | Ethan Feldman |
| Ohio | 10th | .624 | 18 |
| 43 | cell wall | Biology | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .840 | 20 |
| 44 | electric potential or scalar potential | Physics | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .619 | 18 |
| 45 | e | Math | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .866 | 20 |
| 46 | neutron stars | Astronomy | Nathan Sheffield |
| Massachusetts | 12th | .798 | 20 |
| 47 | ferromagnetism | Physics | Alan Xie |
| Ohio | 11th | .632 | 18 |
| 48 | ethanol or ethyl alcohol | Biology | Benjamin Chapman |
| New York | 12th | .741 | 19 |
| 49 | silica | Earth Science | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .870 | 20 |
| 50 | N or n | Chemistry | Pratyush Jaishanker |
| Virginia | 11th | .841 | 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.