Nationals Prep #2 (HSNCT)
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wassily (Wassilyevich) Kandinsky | Fine Arts | Keshav Kumar |
  
| California | 10th | .716 | 19 |
| 2 | Ted Kennedy | History | Ryan Sun |
 
| California | 11th | .892 | 20 |
| 3 | hydrogen gas | Science & Math | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .450 | 15 |
| 4 | Zadie (Adeline) Smith | Literature | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .513 | 16 |
| 5 | Staten Island | Geography | Drew Laroo |
| Michigan | 11th | .692 | 18 |
| 6 | plasma(s) | Science & Math | Pranav Sivaram |
| Ohio | 12th | .751 | 19 |
| 7 | The Canterbury Tales | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .552 | 17 |
| 8 | Ethiopia | Current Events | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .456 | 15 |
| 9 | Snowpiercer | Pop Culture & Sports | Kiran Ebrahimi |
| Connecticut | 11th | .438 | 15 |
| 10 | Shang Dynasty | History | Ryan Sun |
| California | 11th | .875 | 20 |
| 11 | (theory of) special relativity | Science & Math | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 11th | .835 | 20 |
| 12 | Bertolt Brecht | Literature | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .707 | 19 |
| 13 | Jan Hus | History | Daniel Park |
| Illinois | 12th | .488 | 16 |
| 14 | Zambezi River | Geography | Shohom Chakraborty |
| California | 10th | .771 | 20 |
| 15 | Garden of Gethsemane | Literature | Sinecio Morales |
| Illinois | 10th | .846 | 20 |
| 16 | Anne of Great Britain | History | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .499 | 16 |
| 17 | Robinhood | Current Events | Richard Lin |
| California | 10th | .831 | 20 |
| 18 | Sumatra | Geography | Govind Gnanakumar |
| California | 11th | .656 | 18 |
| 19 | black hole | Science & Math | Liam Cross |
| Michigan | 11th | .617 | 18 |
| 20 | Helios | Literature | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .790 | 20 |
| 21 | Seneca | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Rohit Lal |
| New York | 11th | .622 | 18 |
| 22 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Literature | Daniel Liu |
| Michigan | 12th | .728 | 19 |
| 23 | Dodger Stadium | Pop Culture & Sports | Jackson Raich |
| Kentucky | 12th | .605 | 17 |
| 24 | quasars | Science & Math | Will McCurley |
| Alabama | 11th | .630 | 18 |
| 25 | Korean Demilitarized Zone or DMZ | History | Tegan Kapadia |
| Ohio | 12th | .821 | 20 |
| 26 | Charli XCX | Pop Culture & Sports | Jackson Raich |
| Kentucky | 12th | .744 | 19 |
| 27 | (transverse) flute | Fine Arts | Seiyoung Jang |
| Massachusetts | 12th | .922 | 20 |
| 28 | White House Press Secretary | History | Will Carstens |
| Michigan | 10th | .584 | 17 |
| 29 | Okazaki fragments | Science & Math | Sinecio Morales |
| Illinois | 10th | .834 | 20 |
| 30 | Lisbon, Portugal | Geography | Drew Laroo |
| Michigan | 11th | .867 | 20 |
| 31 | Paris Commune | History | Ryan Sun |
| California | 11th | .845 | 20 |
| 32 | chairs | Fine Arts | Seiyoung Jang |
| Massachusetts | 12th | .621 | 18 |
| 33 | (crude) oil | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 11th | .770 | 20 |
| 34 | malaria | Science & Math | Connor Blake |
| Texas | 11th | .882 | 20 |
| 35 | (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt | History | Cole Hartung |
| Texas | 9th | .894 | 20 |
| 36 | John Keats | Literature | Ned Tagtmeier |
| Texas | 12th | .800 | 20 |
| 37 | cardinality | Science & Math | Conner Rose | Michigan | 11th | .826 | 20 | |
| 38 | Friedrich Engels | Social Science | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .732 | 19 |
| 39 | (the) cask of Amontillado | Literature | Will Carstens |
| Michigan | 10th | .764 | 19 |
| 40 | chlorophyll | Science & Math | Aditya Sivakumar |
| California | 10th | .824 | 20 |
| 41 | George Marshall | History | Daniel Liu |
| Michigan | 12th | .683 | 18 |
| 42 | Secretary of Agriculture | Current Events | Daniel Liu |
| Michigan | 12th | .568 | 17 |
| 43 | lilacs | Literature | Justin Chen |
| Virginia | 11th | .805 | 20 |
| 44 | St. Louis, Missouri | Geography | Noah Dean |
| Michigan | 11th | .869 | 20 |
| 45 | Nelson (Aldrich) Rockefeller | History | Neel Moudgal |
| Michigan | 10th | .770 | 20 |
| 46 | square numbers | Science & Math | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 11th | .803 | 20 |
| 47 | Johann Pachelbel | Fine Arts | Sinecio Morales |
| Illinois | 10th | .543 | 17 |
| 48 | realism | Literature | Joel Miles |
| Missouri | 12th | .636 | 18 |
| 49 | Belfast | History | Will Carstens |
| Michigan | 10th | .710 | 19 |
| 50 | free radicals | Science & Math | Ryan Sun |
| California | 11th | .821 | 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.