American Literature Reprise
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanche DuBois | Drama | Anish Kodali |
 
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .875 | 20 |
| 2 | Mark Twain | Nonfiction | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 10th | .731 | 19 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln | Poetry | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .750 | 19 |
| 4 | Young Goodman Brown | Short Stories | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .789 | 20 |
| 5 | A Raisin in the Sun | Drama | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .501 | 16 |
| 6 | Cormac McCarthy | Novels | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .750 | 19 |
| 7 | (Francis) Bret Harte | Short Stories | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .603 | 17 |
| 8 | Truman (Garcia) Capote | Nonfiction | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .764 | 19 |
| 9 | The Sun Also Rises | Novels | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .608 | 17 |
| 10 | O. Henry | Short Stories | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 10th | .618 | 18 |
| 11 | Judy Blume | - | Sam Wang |
| Ohio | 12th | .217 | 12 |
| 12 | New Orleans | Novels | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .807 | 20 |
| 13 | The Lottery | Short Stories | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .789 | 20 |
| 14 | J. D. Salinger | Short Stories | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 11th | .608 | 17 |
| 15 | Octavia (Estelle) Butler | Genre | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .618 | 18 |
| 16 | Sylvia Plath | Poetry | McKenzie Sykes |
| Virginia | 11th | .649 | 18 |
| 17 | Amy Tan | Novels | Zach Vogelsmeier |
| Missouri | 12th | .682 | 18 |
| 18 | Danielle Steel | Genre | Callie Wilson |
| North Carolina | 12th | .000 | 10 |
| 19 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Nonfiction | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 11th | .324 | 14 |
| 20 | The Sound and the Fury | Novels | Sam Wang |
| Ohio | 12th | .648 | 18 |
| 21 | Usher | Short Stories | Sam Wang |
| Ohio | 12th | .527 | 16 |
| 22 | (the) Stage Manager | Drama | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .492 | 16 |
| 23 | Carl (August) Sandburg | Poetry | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 10th | .628 | 18 |
| 24 | houses | Novels | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .552 | 17 |
| 25 | mountains | - | Callie Wilson |
| North Carolina | 12th | .510 | 16 |
| 26 | Edward Albee | Drama | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .640 | 18 |
| 27 | Williams | Poetry | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .511 | 16 |
| 28 | Owl Creek Bridge | Short Stories | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .614 | 17 |
| 29 | August Wilson | Drama | Sam Wang |
| Ohio | 12th | .710 | 19 |
| 30 | Rabbit Angstrom | Novels | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .644 | 18 |
| 31 | Hatchet | - | Aaron Cartwright |
| Pennsylvania | 12th | .480 | 16 |
| 32 | Stephen (Edwin) King | Genre | Matthew Colson |
| Illinois | 12th | .757 | 19 |
| 33 | Henry David Thoreau | Nonfiction | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .648 | 18 |
| 34 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Novels | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .554 | 17 |
| 35 | mouse | - | Govind Gnanakumar |
| California | 11th | .382 | 14 |
| 36 | Dune | Genre | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 11th | .648 | 18 |
| 37 | Ralph (Waldo) Ellison | Novels | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .780 | 20 |
| 38 | Helen (Adams) Keller | Drama | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 10th | .450 | 15 |
| 39 | horses | - | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .726 | 19 |
| 40 | John | Novels | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .747 | 19 |
| 41 | (John) Michael Crichton | Genre | Matthew Colson |
| Illinois | 12th | .241 | 13 |
| 42 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Poetry | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .551 | 17 |
| 43 | The Feminine Mystique | Nonfiction | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .522 | 16 |
| 44 | Toni Morrison | Novels | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .807 | 20 |
| 45 | Maya Angelou | Poetry | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .673 | 18 |
| 46 | Florida | - | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .601 | 17 |
| 47 | Carson McCullers | Novels | Anish Kodali |
| Pennsylvania | 11th | .387 | 15 |
| 48 | The New Colossus | Poetry | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 10th | .338 | 14 |
| 49 | Herman Melville | - | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .596 | 17 |
| 50 | Edith Wharton | Novels | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .820 | 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.