Season 3 Level D Week 5
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strain | Science & Math | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .789 | 20 |
| 2 | Cairo | Literature | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
  
| Massachusetts | 11th | .626 | 18 |
| 3 | Thermidorian Reaction | History | Amogh Kulkarni |
| Minnesota | 12th | .448 | 15 |
| 4 | debt(s) | Social Science | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .733 | 19 |
| 5 | Alison Brie (Schermerhorn) | Pop Culture & Sports | Ayog Prasad |
| Kentucky | 12th | .241 | 13 |
| 6 | Dead Sea or Salt Sea | Geography | Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford |
| North Carolina | 11th | .757 | 19 |
| 7 | Korean War | History | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .761 | 19 |
| 8 | (ring) torus | Science & Math | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .622 | 18 |
| 9 | Christopher Marlowe | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .854 | 20 |
| 10 | Porfirio Díaz | History | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .616 | 18 |
| 11 | (Sony) Playstation 4 | Pop Culture & Sports | Will Carstens |
| Michigan | 10th | .739 | 19 |
| 12 | Agatha Christie | Literature | Alexander Clarke |
| Arizona | 12th | .793 | 20 |
| 13 | Fates | Literature | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 11th | .701 | 19 |
| 14 | Thank U, Next | Pop Culture & Sports | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .820 | 20 |
| 15 | H(enry) Ross Perot | History | Louis Li |
| Missouri | 12th | .749 | 19 |
| 16 | Kyrgyzstan | Current Events | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .646 | 18 |
| 17 | Heinrich | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .770 | 20 |
| 18 | Venerable Bede | History | Arthur Delot-Vilain |
| District of Columbia | 12th | .504 | 16 |
| 19 | Jill (Ellen) Stein | Current Events | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .725 | 19 |
| 20 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or U.K. | Fine Arts | Joel Miles |
| Missouri | 12th | .689 | 18 |
| 21 | neurons | Science & Math | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .868 | 20 |
| 22 | Zambezi River | Geography | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .832 | 20 |
| 23 | Taft family | History | Leo Fein |
| Florida | 10th | .591 | 17 |
| 24 | (Louis-)Hector Berlioz | Fine Arts | Arthur Delot-Vilain |
| District of Columbia | 12th | .556 | 17 |
| 25 | The Dumb Waiter | Literature | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .513 | 16 |
| 26 | acetone | Science & Math | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .772 | 20 |
| 27 | India | Current Events | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .867 | 20 |
| 28 | Canada | History | Leo Fein |
| Florida | 10th | .581 | 17 |
| 29 | Alexandria | Geography | Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford |
| North Carolina | 11th | .605 | 17 |
| 30 | soil | Science & Math | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .829 | 20 |
| 31 | Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz | Social Science | Amogh Kulkarni |
| Minnesota | 12th | .875 | 20 |
| 32 | The House on Mango Street | Literature | Drew Laroo |
| Michigan | 11th | .781 | 20 |
| 33 | set intersection | Science & Math | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 12th | .582 | 17 |
| 34 | Ottorino Respighi | Fine Arts | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .701 | 19 |
| 35 | George (Edward) Foreman | Pop Culture & Sports | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .695 | 19 |
| 36 | Meursault’s mother | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .600 | 17 |
| 37 | angular momentum | Science & Math | Liam Cross |
| Michigan | 11th | .570 | 17 |
| 38 | tin | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .598 | 17 |
| 39 | Albrecht von Wallenstein | History | Avinash Iyer |
| California | 12th | .414 | 15 |
| 40 | scattering | Science & Math | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .810 | 20 |
| 41 | Miriam | Literature | Amogh Kulkarni |
| California | 11th | .720 | 19 |
| 42 | Frederick Douglass | History | William Orr |
| Virginia | 11th | .827 | 20 |
| 43 | rings | Science & Math | Avinash Iyer |
| California | 12th | .696 | 19 |
| 44 | Zora Neale Hurston | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .805 | 20 |
| 45 | Cayman Islands | Geography | Stefan Calin |
| Virginia | 12th | .843 | 20 |
| 46 | Italy | History | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .884 | 20 |
| 47 | Kenya | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Avinash Iyer |
| California | 12th | .604 | 17 |
| 48 | Proud Boys | Current Events | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .701 | 19 |
| 49 | ecological succession | Science & Math | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .537 | 16 |
| 50 | William Bligh | History | Kapil Nathan |
| Alabama | 11th | .646 | 18 |
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.