American Literature Reprise
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blanche DuBois | Drama | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .845 | 20 |
| 2 | Mark Twain | Nonfiction | Jason Palmer |
  
| Ohio | .723 | 19 |
| 3 | Abraham Lincoln | Poetry | Owen Cooper |
| Alabama | .698 | 19 |
| 4 | Young Goodman Brown | Short Stories | Stuart Ryan Teso-Warner |
| Illinois | .676 | 18 |
| 5 | A Raisin in the Sun | Drama | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .686 | 18 |
| 6 | Cormac McCarthy | Novels | Teddy Knox |
| Illinois | .772 | 20 |
| 7 | (Francis) Bret Harte | Short Stories | Robert Diethrich |
| Texas | .539 | 17 |
| 8 | Truman (Garcia) Capote | Nonfiction | Stuart Ryan Teso-Warner |
| Illinois | .634 | 18 |
| 9 | The Sun Also Rises | Novels | James Dowd |
| Hawaii | .598 | 17 |
| 10 | O. Henry | Short Stories | Robert Diethrich |
| Texas | .645 | 18 |
| 11 | Judy Blume | - | Owen Cooper |
| Alabama | .557 | 17 |
| 12 | New Orleans | Novels | Teddy Knox |
| Illinois | .788 | 20 |
| 13 | The Lottery | Short Stories | Owen Cooper |
| Alabama | .826 | 20 |
| 14 | J. D. Salinger | Short Stories | John Monahan |
| Europe | .810 | 20 |
| 15 | Octavia (Estelle) Butler | Genre | Brian Lipinski |
| District of Columbia | .639 | 18 |
| 16 | Sylvia Plath | Poetry | Simon Alvey |
| United Kingdom | .610 | 17 |
| 17 | Amy Tan | Novels | Nicholas Karas |
| Georgia | .592 | 17 |
| 18 | Danielle Steel | Genre | Lorin Burte |
| Illinois | .789 | 20 |
| 19 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | Nonfiction | Stuart Ryan Teso-Warner |
| Illinois | .541 | 17 |
| 20 | The Sound and the Fury | Novels | Robert Diethrich |
| Texas | .715 | 19 |
| 21 | Usher | Short Stories | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .372 | 14 |
| 22 | (the) Stage Manager | Drama | Robert Diethrich |
| Texas | .522 | 16 |
| 23 | Carl (August) Sandburg | Poetry | Brian Lipinski |
| District of Columbia | .557 | 17 |
| 24 | houses | Novels | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .496 | 16 |
| 25 | mountains | - | Robert Diethrich |
| Texas | .697 | 19 |
| 26 | Edward Albee | Drama | Dylan McCormick |
| Wisconsin | .418 | 15 |
| 27 | Williams | Poetry | Nicholas Karas |
| Georgia | .384 | 14 |
| 28 | Owl Creek Bridge | Short Stories | Robert Diethrich |
| Texas | .614 | 17 |
| 29 | August Wilson | Drama | James Dowd |
| Hawaii | .744 | 19 |
| 30 | Rabbit Angstrom | Novels | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .667 | 18 |
| 31 | Hatchet | - | Dylan McCormick |
| Wisconsin | .281 | 13 |
| 32 | Stephen (Edwin) King | Genre | Erik Eide |
| Canada | .792 | 20 |
| 33 | Henry David Thoreau | Nonfiction | Nora Denning |
| Ohio | .759 | 19 |
| 34 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Novels | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .476 | 16 |
| 35 | mouse | - | Robert Diethrich |
| Texas | .677 | 18 |
| 36 | Dune | Genre | Luke Frangione |
| New Jersey | .803 | 20 |
| 37 | Ralph (Waldo) Ellison | Novels | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .381 | 14 |
| 38 | Helen (Adams) Keller | Drama | Stuart Ryan Teso-Warner |
| Illinois | .391 | 15 |
| 39 | horses | - | Owen Cooper |
| Alabama | .645 | 18 |
| 40 | John | Novels | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .719 | 19 |
| 41 | (John) Michael Crichton | Genre | Brian Lipinski |
| District of Columbia | .621 | 18 |
| 42 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Poetry | Rachel Gleyzer |
| New Jersey | .523 | 16 |
| 43 | The Feminine Mystique | Nonfiction | Rachel Gleyzer |
| New Jersey | .555 | 17 |
| 44 | Toni Morrison | Novels | Erik Eide |
| Canada | .629 | 18 |
| 45 | Maya Angelou | Poetry | Brian Lipinski |
| District of Columbia | .867 | 20 |
| 46 | Florida | - | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .762 | 19 |
| 47 | Carson McCullers | Novels | Iain Thoms |
| United Kingdom | .242 | 13 |
| 48 | The New Colossus | Poetry | Nicholas Karas |
| Georgia | .591 | 17 |
| 49 | Herman Melville | - | Lorin Burte |
| Illinois | .440 | 15 |
| 50 | Edith Wharton | Novels | Tejas Raje |
| Illinois | .550 | 17 |
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.