Season 4 Level D Week 1
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | History | Eric Bobrow |
  
| Maryland | Grad. | .781 | 20 |
| 2 | iron | Pop Culture & Sports | Jonathan Caldwell |
| Tennessee | Jr. | .645 | 18 |
| 3 | John Cage | Fine Arts | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .552 | 17 |
| 4 | tortoises | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .813 | 20 |
| 5 | Yitzhak Rabin | History | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .447 | 15 |
| 6 | Doctor Faustus | Literature | Thomas Gioia |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .840 | 20 |
| 7 | Rama | Social Science | Pranav Veluri |
| Indiana | So. | .756 | 19 |
| 8 | polynomials | Science & Math | Jake Sundberg |
| Louisiana | Grad. | .909 | 20 |
| 9 | Calais | History | Jack Van Nostrand |
 
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .776 | 20 |
| 10 | The Lady of Shalott | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .819 | 20 |
| 11 | Ural Mountains | Geography | Lexi Terman |
| New Jersey | Fr. | .810 | 20 |
| 12 | bone marrow | Science & Math | Alexander Hardwick |
| United Kingdom | Grad. | .651 | 18 |
| 13 | Eve | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .517 | 16 |
| 14 | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon | History | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .684 | 18 |
| 15 | Frank (Owen) Gehry | Fine Arts | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .830 | 20 |
| 16 | Tunisia | Geography | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .851 | 20 |
| 17 | Josh Hawley | Current Events | Andrew Morin |
| District of Columbia | Fr. | .815 | 20 |
| 18 | Hungary | History | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | So. | .366 | 14 |
| 19 | The Song of Hiawatha | Literature | Natan Holtzman |
| California | Grad. | .544 | 17 |
| 20 | naked mole-rat(s) | Science & Math | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .764 | 19 |
| 21 | Tiberius | History | Michael Ponce |
| Tennessee | Sr. | .582 | 17 |
| 22 | Denmark | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .598 | 17 |
| 23 | scattering | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .816 | 20 |
| 24 | Typhon | Literature | Pranav Veluri |
| Indiana | So. | .639 | 18 |
| 25 | Nicolas Sarkozy | Current Events | Jonathan Caldwell |
| Tennessee | Jr. | .405 | 15 |
| 26 | vampires | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .594 | 17 |
| 27 | regression analysis | Science & Math | Christopher Sims |
| Illinois | Grad. | .853 | 20 |
| 28 | Azerbaijan | Geography | Nick Jensen |
| California | Grad. | .631 | 18 |
| 29 | Elon (Reeve) Musk | Current Events | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .725 | 19 |
| 30 | Rust | Science & Math | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Jr. | .308 | 14 |
| 31 | Twelve Angry Men | Literature | Andrew Morin |
| District of Columbia | Fr. | .749 | 19 |
| 32 | Scotland | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .644 | 18 |
| 33 | (linear) momentum | Science & Math | Eric Bobrow |
| Maryland | Grad. | .728 | 19 |
| 34 | Jimmy Carter | History | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .778 | 20 |
| 35 | Oakland Raiders | Pop Culture & Sports | Jonathan Caldwell |
| Tennessee | Jr. | .623 | 18 |
| 36 | Machu Picchu | Social Science | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .470 | 16 |
| 37 | essays | Literature | Thomas Gioia |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .809 | 20 |
| 38 | mitochondrion or mitochondria | Science & Math | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .698 | 19 |
| 39 | The Netherlands | Geography | Chauncey Lo |
| New York | Jr. | .833 | 20 |
| 40 | C. Auguste Dupin | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .728 | 19 |
| 41 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire | History | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .676 | 18 |
| 42 | Heisenberg uncertainty principle | Science & Math | Daniel Hothem |
| Oregon | Grad. | .829 | 20 |
| 43 | Black Swan | Pop Culture & Sports | Juliet Mayer |
| Massachusetts | Grad. | .780 | 20 |
| 44 | Abu Ghraib prison | History | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | So. | .780 | 20 |
| 45 | Arjuna or Arjun | Literature | Pranav Veluri |
| Indiana | So. | .816 | 20 |
| 46 | carbon | Science & Math | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | So. | .784 | 20 |
| 47 | Secretary of the Treasury | History | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .610 | 17 |
| 48 | Mississippi | Current Events | Andrew Morin |
| District of Columbia | Fr. | .571 | 17 |
| 49 | (Sir) Anthony van Dyck | Fine Arts | Thomas Gioia |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .639 | 18 |
| 50 | white dwarfs | Science & Math | Swapnil Garg |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .666 | 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.