American Literature Reprise
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanche DuBois | Drama | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .785 | 20 |
| 2 | Mark Twain | Nonfiction | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .553 | 17 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln | Poetry | Eric Wolfsberg |
 
| California | Grad. | .761 | 19 |
| 4 | Young Goodman Brown | Short Stories | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .812 | 20 |
| 5 | A Raisin in the Sun | Drama | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .626 | 18 |
| 6 | Cormac McCarthy | Novels | Simon Sweeney |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .561 | 17 |
| 7 | (Francis) Bret Harte | Short Stories | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .416 | 15 |
| 8 | Truman (Garcia) Capote | Nonfiction | Urbas Ekka |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .641 | 18 |
| 9 | The Sun Also Rises | Novels | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .596 | 17 |
| 10 | O. Henry | Short Stories | Urbas Ekka |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .499 | 16 |
| 11 | Judy Blume | - | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .145 | 11 |
| 12 | New Orleans | Novels | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .762 | 19 |
| 13 | The Lottery | Short Stories | Simon Sweeney |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .619 | 18 |
| 14 | J. D. Salinger | Short Stories | Urbas Ekka |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .583 | 17 |
| 15 | Octavia (Estelle) Butler | Genre | Simon Sweeney |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .762 | 19 |
| 16 | Sylvia Plath | Poetry | Benjamin Kitchen |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .608 | 17 |
| 17 | Amy Tan | Novels | Urbas Ekka |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .584 | 17 |
| 18 | Danielle Steel | Genre | Benjamin Kitchen |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .277 | 13 |
| 19 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Nonfiction | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .529 | 16 |
| 20 | The Sound and the Fury | Novels | Simon Sweeney |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .733 | 19 |
| 21 | Usher | Short Stories | Urbas Ekka |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .436 | 15 |
| 22 | (the) Stage Manager | Drama | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .233 | 13 |
| 23 | Carl (August) Sandburg | Poetry | Avery Strangstalien |
| Wisconsin | So. | .460 | 15 |
| 24 | houses | Novels | Benjamin Kitchen |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .541 | 17 |
| 25 | mountains | - | Benjamin Kitchen |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .593 | 17 |
| 26 | Edward Albee | Drama | Cade Reinberger |
| New York | Fr. | .300 | 13 |
| 27 | Williams | Poetry | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .504 | 16 |
| 28 | Owl Creek Bridge | Short Stories | Urbas Ekka |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .564 | 17 |
| 29 | August Wilson | Drama | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .736 | 19 |
| 30 | Rabbit Angstrom | Novels | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .410 | 15 |
| 31 | Hatchet | - | Deleena Simon |
| Michigan | Jr. | .287 | 13 |
| 32 | Stephen (Edwin) King | Genre | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .786 | 20 |
| 33 | Henry David Thoreau | Nonfiction | Gregor McGee |
| Oregon | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .752 | 19 |
| 34 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Novels | Michael Gleyzer |
| New Jersey | Jr. | .458 | 15 |
| 35 | mouse | - | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .393 | 15 |
| 36 | Dune | Genre | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .632 | 18 |
| 37 | Ralph (Waldo) Ellison | Novels | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .538 | 16 |
| 38 | Helen (Adams) Keller | Drama | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .388 | 15 |
| 39 | horses | - | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .774 | 20 |
| 40 | John | Novels | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .717 | 19 |
| 41 | (John) Michael Crichton | Genre | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .631 | 18 |
| 42 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Poetry | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .669 | 18 |
| 43 | The Feminine Mystique | Nonfiction | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .564 | 17 |
| 44 | Toni Morrison | Novels | Urbas Ekka |
| Minnesota | Fr. | .796 | 20 |
| 45 | Maya Angelou | Poetry | Avery Strangstalien |
| Wisconsin | So. | .732 | 19 |
| 46 | Florida | - | Simon Sweeney |
| Pennsylvania | So. | .587 | 17 |
| 47 | Carson McCullers | Novels | Avery Strangstalien |
| Wisconsin | So. | .199 | 12 |
| 48 | The New Colossus | Poetry | Benjamin Kitchen |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .497 | 16 |
| 49 | Herman Melville | - | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .417 | 15 |
| 50 | Edith Wharton | Novels | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .515 | 16 |
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.