Season 4 Level D Week 4
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billy Budd | Literature | Ryan Sun |
  
| California | 11th | .831 | 20 |
| 2 | France | Social Science | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .568 | 17 |
| 3 | McDonald’s Corporation | Current Events | Joseph Burke |
| Michigan | 10th | .578 | 17 |
| 4 | nuclear fission | Science & Math | Connor Blake |
 
| Texas | 11th | .713 | 19 |
| 5 | Leo | History | Owen Kovalik |
| Ohio | 12th | .746 | 19 |
| 6 | Gotham City | Pop Culture & Sports | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 12th | .739 | 19 |
| 7 | stellar spectra | Science & Math | Calvin Bostleman |
| Ohio | 11th | .623 | 18 |
| 8 | San Francisco, California | History | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .851 | 20 |
| 9 | Brazil | Geography | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .715 | 19 |
| 10 | mulberry or mulberries | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .711 | 19 |
| 11 | voltage | Science & Math | Connor Blake |
| Texas | 11th | .665 | 18 |
| 12 | Zoroastrianism | Literature | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .838 | 20 |
| 13 | Vienna | Geography | Patrick Szendro |
| Michigan | 11th | .643 | 18 |
| 14 | Chile | Current Events | Sam Henshaw |
| South Carolina | 10th | .575 | 17 |
| 15 | primitive | Social Science | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .348 | 14 |
| 16 | Liberal Party | History | Alexander Clarke |
| Arizona | 12th | .263 | 13 |
| 17 | Nikolai (Vasilievich) Gogol | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .517 | 16 |
| 18 | reverse transcriptases or RTs | Science & Math | Ayog Prasad |
| Kentucky | 12th | .730 | 19 |
| 19 | Roy (Fox) Lichtenstein | Fine Arts | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .778 | 20 |
| 20 | Al Gore | History | Will Carstens |
| Michigan | 10th | .468 | 16 |
| 21 | Atalanta | Literature | Liam Cross |
| Michigan | 11th | .764 | 19 |
| 22 | strings | Science & Math | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .781 | 20 |
| 23 | Washington, D.C. | Fine Arts | Louis Li |
| Missouri | 12th | .336 | 14 |
| 24 | James A(bram) Garfield | History | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .609 | 17 |
| 25 | Buck | Literature | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Michigan | 12th | .672 | 18 |
| 26 | Dragon Ball Z | Pop Culture & Sports | Tate Smith |
| Mississippi | 12th | .256 | 13 |
| 27 | Iran | Geography | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .685 | 18 |
| 28 | The Knight’s Tale | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .371 | 14 |
| 29 | Russia | Fine Arts | Sam Henshaw |
| South Carolina | 10th | .626 | 18 |
| 30 | Henry IV of France | History | Cole Hartung |
| Texas | 9th | .827 | 20 |
| 31 | necklaces | Literature | Liam Cross |
| Michigan | 11th | .640 | 18 |
| 32 | Minnesota | Geography | Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford |
| North Carolina | 11th | .820 | 20 |
| 33 | Kurt (Friedrich) Gödel | Science & Math | Owen Kovalik |
| Ohio | 12th | .458 | 15 |
| 34 | Central African Republic or CAR | Current Events | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .553 | 17 |
| 35 | branches | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Jackson Raich |
| Kentucky | 12th | .559 | 17 |
| 36 | Horatio (Lloyd) Gates | History | Guy Indorante |
| Illinois | 12th | .553 | 17 |
| 37 | natural rubber | Science & Math | Ayog Prasad |
| Kentucky | 12th | .391 | 15 |
| 38 | SWAT teams | Current Events | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .254 | 13 |
| 39 | Hedda Gabler | Literature | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 12th | .728 | 19 |
| 40 | The Bahamas | History | John Greene |
| Michigan | 11th | .414 | 15 |
| 41 | Dory | Pop Culture & Sports | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 11th | .858 | 20 |
| 42 | aromaticity | Science & Math | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .759 | 19 |
| 43 | A. E. Housman | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .857 | 20 |
| 44 | (Brazilian) slaves | History | Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford |
| North Carolina | 11th | .540 | 17 |
| 45 | zinc | Science & Math | Ayog Prasad |
| Kentucky | 12th | .844 | 20 |
| 46 | A Perfect Day for Bananafish | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .754 | 19 |
| 47 | Inferno | Fine Arts | Karsten Ullr Rynearson |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .663 | 18 |
| 48 | pigeonhole principle | Science & Math | Ryan Sun |
| California | 11th | .726 | 19 |
| 49 | William Butler Yeats | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .647 | 18 |
| 50 | Afghanistan | History | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .726 | 19 |
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.