Nationals Prep #2 (HSNCT)
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wassily (Wassilyevich) Kandinsky | Fine Arts | Ashwath Seetharaman |
 
| Texas | Jr. | .510 | 16 |
| 2 | Ted Kennedy | History | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .858 | 20 |
| 3 | hydrogen gas | Science & Math | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .307 | 13 |
| 4 | Zadie (Adeline) Smith | Literature | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .297 | 13 |
| 5 | Staten Island | Geography | Vishal Puppala |
| Missouri | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .674 | 18 |
| 6 | plasma(s) | Science & Math | Eric Bobrow |
| Maryland | Grad. | .848 | 20 |
| 7 | The Canterbury Tales | Literature | Eric Bobrow |
| Maryland | Grad. | .663 | 18 |
| 8 | Ethiopia | Current Events | Eric Rosenthal |
 
| New York | Grad. | .522 | 16 |
| 9 | Snowpiercer | Pop Culture & Sports | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .305 | 13 |
| 10 | Shang Dynasty | History | Kevin Lei |
| Canada | Sr. | .479 | 16 |
| 11 | (theory of) special relativity | Science & Math | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .781 | 20 |
| 12 | Bertolt Brecht | Literature | Thomas Gioia |
| Massachusetts | Jr. | .804 | 20 |
| 13 | Jan Hus | History | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .436 | 15 |
| 14 | Zambezi River | Geography | Chauncey Lo |
| New York | Jr. | .696 | 19 |
| 15 | Garden of Gethsemane | Literature | Tomás Aguilar-Fraga |
| California | So. | .570 | 17 |
| 16 | Anne of Great Britain | History | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .652 | 18 |
| 17 | Robinhood | Current Events | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .802 | 20 |
| 18 | Sumatra | Geography | Vishal Puppala |
| Missouri | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .820 | 20 |
| 19 | black hole | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .652 | 18 |
| 20 | Helios | Literature | Noah McThenia |
| North Carolina | Sr. | .660 | 18 |
| 21 | Seneca | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Michael Gleyzer |
| New Jersey | Jr. | .819 | 20 |
| 22 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Literature | Mazin Omer |
| Massachusetts | So. | .737 | 19 |
| 23 | Dodger Stadium | Pop Culture & Sports | Sarah Benner |
| Indiana | Sr. | .603 | 17 |
| 24 | quasars | Science & Math | Vikshar Athreya |
| Washington | Jr. | .717 | 19 |
| 25 | Korean Demilitarized Zone or DMZ | History | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .797 | 20 |
| 26 | Charli XCX | Pop Culture & Sports | Matt D'Annunzio |
| Connecticut | Fr. | .801 | 20 |
| 27 | (transverse) flute | Fine Arts | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .921 | 20 |
| 28 | White House Press Secretary | History | Matt D'Annunzio |
| Connecticut | Fr. | .621 | 18 |
| 29 | Okazaki fragments | Science & Math | Cade Reinberger |
| New York | Fr. | .659 | 18 |
| 30 | Lisbon, Portugal | Geography | Ben Russell Jones |
| United Kingdom | So. | .865 | 20 |
| 31 | Paris Commune | History | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .826 | 20 |
| 32 | chairs | Fine Arts | Christopher Sims |
| Illinois | Grad. | .619 | 18 |
| 33 | (crude) oil | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Venu Reddy |
| Louisiana | Sr. | .501 | 16 |
| 34 | malaria | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .889 | 20 |
| 35 | (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt | History | Eric Li |
| Massachusetts | Sr. | .885 | 20 |
| 36 | John Keats | Literature | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Jr. | .750 | 19 |
| 37 | cardinality | Science & Math | Cade Reinberger |
| New York | Fr. | .835 | 20 |
| 38 | Friedrich Engels | Social Science | Isaiah Gutman |
| Iowa | So. | .836 | 20 |
| 39 | (the) cask of Amontillado | Literature | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .738 | 19 |
| 40 | chlorophyll | Science & Math | Vishal Puppala |
| Missouri | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .671 | 18 |
| 41 | George Marshall | History | Eric Rosenthal |
| New York | Grad. | .634 | 18 |
| 42 | Secretary of Agriculture | Current Events | Kenneth Martin |
| Wisconsin | Jr. | .491 | 16 |
| 43 | lilacs | Literature | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .380 | 14 |
| 44 | St. Louis, Missouri | Geography | Eleanor Settle |
| Florida | Grad. | .843 | 20 |
| 45 | Nelson (Aldrich) Rockefeller | History | Isaiah Gutman |
| Iowa | So. | .814 | 20 |
| 46 | square numbers | Science & Math | Jake Sundberg |
| Louisiana | Grad. | .816 | 20 |
| 47 | Johann Pachelbel | Fine Arts | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .555 | 17 |
| 48 | realism | Literature | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .730 | 19 |
| 49 | Belfast | History | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | So. | .702 | 19 |
| 50 | free radicals | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | So. | .835 | 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.