Season 3 Level D Week 1
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Musa | Literature | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .411 | 15 |
| 2 | Madrid, Spain | Geography | Junu Song |
  
| California | Fr. | .849 | 20 |
| 3 | Sweden | History | Adrian Wong |
 
| Canada | So. | .835 | 20 |
| 4 | Streptococcus | Science & Math | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .576 | 17 |
| 5 | Kacey (Lee) Musgraves | Pop Culture & Sports | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .488 | 16 |
| 6 | Nagasaki | History | Junu Song |
| California | Fr. | .836 | 20 |
| 7 | transcendental numbers | Science & Math | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | So. | .720 | 19 |
| 8 | Philip (George) Zimbardo | Social Science | Daniel Hothem |
| Oregon | Grad. | .475 | 16 |
| 9 | The Birth of a Nation | Pop Culture & Sports | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .892 | 20 |
| 10 | Rockefeller (family) | History | Austin L. Smith |
| Kentucky | Grad. | .799 | 20 |
| 11 | graphs | Science & Math | Jake Sundberg |
| Louisiana | Grad. | .833 | 20 |
| 12 | Sophocles | Literature | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .861 | 20 |
| 13 | Robert (Marion) La Follette | History | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .572 | 17 |
| 14 | Chihuahua | Geography | Jay Mikel Misuk |
| Canada | Grad. | .678 | 18 |
| 15 | turtles | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Akshay Subramaniam |
| Washington | Grad. | .652 | 18 |
| 16 | The Lady of Shalott | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .752 | 19 |
| 17 | temperature | Science & Math | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .782 | 20 |
| 18 | Singapore | Geography | Jay Mikel Misuk |
| Canada | Grad. | .856 | 20 |
| 19 | Klemens (von) Metternich | History | Alexander Koutsoukos |
| California | Fr. | .728 | 19 |
| 20 | The Idiot | Literature | Swapnil Garg |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .801 | 20 |
| 21 | light-emitting diodes | Science & Math | Alexander Koutsoukos |
| California | Fr. | .682 | 18 |
| 22 | Afghanistan | Current Events | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .566 | 17 |
| 23 | English horn(s) | Fine Arts | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .697 | 19 |
| 24 | methionine | Science & Math | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .898 | 20 |
| 25 | Darius I of Persia | History | Alexander Koutsoukos |
| California | Fr. | .826 | 20 |
| 26 | Olympia | Fine Arts | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .871 | 20 |
| 27 | white | Literature | Adrian Wong |
| Canada | So. | .721 | 19 |
| 28 | (residual) strong nuclear force | Science & Math | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | Jr. | .610 | 17 |
| 29 | God | Pop Culture & Sports | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .589 | 17 |
| 30 | Demeter | Literature | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .780 | 20 |
| 31 | Donner Party | History | Michael Bukata |
| Illinois | Grad. | .808 | 20 |
| 32 | Costco | Current Events | Leah Honsinger |
| Florida | Grad. | .420 | 15 |
| 33 | P. G. Wodehouse | Literature | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .381 | 14 |
| 34 | Søren (Aabye) Kierkegaard | Social Science | Trevor Davis |
| Canada | Grad. | .673 | 18 |
| 35 | phosphorus | Current Events | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .771 | 20 |
| 36 | Ash Wednesday | Literature | Thomas Gioia |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .387 | 15 |
| 37 | Ethiopia | Geography | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .837 | 20 |
| 38 | leukemia | Science & Math | Itamar Naveh-Benjamin |
| Virginia | Grad. | .703 | 19 |
| 39 | Benedict Arnold | History | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .720 | 19 |
| 40 | Lord Byron | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Jack Van Nostrand |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .572 | 17 |
| 41 | equilibrium constant | Science & Math | Sharath Narayan |
| Tennessee | Jr. | .592 | 17 |
| 42 | mountains | Literature | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Jr. | .729 | 19 |
| 43 | Derek (Alton) Walcott | Literature | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | So. | .650 | 18 |
| 44 | Ruth (Joan) Bader Ginsburg | Current Events | Venu Reddy |
| Louisiana | Sr. | .767 | 19 |
| 45 | carbon | Science & Math | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .745 | 19 |
| 46 | Eleanor of Aquitaine | History | Casey Stafford |
| Illinois | So. | .776 | 20 |
| 47 | Samuel (Osmond) Barber | Fine Arts | David Arena |
| Massachusetts | Fr. | .433 | 15 |
| 48 | trees | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .692 | 18 |
| 49 | Brazil | History | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .802 | 20 |
| 50 | time | Science & Math | Matt Mitchell |
| Connecticut | Grad. | .795 | 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.