Nationals Prep #2 (HSNCT)
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wassily (Wassilyevich) Kandinsky | Fine Arts | Dan Puma |
  
| Illinois | .532 | 16 |
| 2 | Ted Kennedy | History | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .879 | 20 |
| 3 | hydrogen gas | Science & Math | James E. Lasker |
| Texas | .558 | 17 |
| 4 | Zadie (Adeline) Smith | Literature | Alex Li |
 
| Wisconsin | .748 | 19 |
| 5 | Staten Island | Geography | Neil Gurram |
| California | .788 | 20 |
| 6 | plasma(s) | Science & Math | Daniel DeFelippis |
 
| New York | .851 | 20 |
| 7 | The Canterbury Tales | Literature | Wesley Mathews |
| Arizona | .662 | 18 |
| 8 | Ethiopia | Current Events | Ethan Levine |
| Illinois | .694 | 19 |
| 9 | Snowpiercer | Pop Culture & Sports | Andrew Fisher |
| United Kingdom | .452 | 15 |
| 10 | Shang Dynasty | History | Lee Henry |
| Alabama | .719 | 19 |
| 11 | (theory of) special relativity | Science & Math | Alex Li |
| Wisconsin | .762 | 19 |
| 12 | Bertolt Brecht | Literature | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .702 | 19 |
| 13 | Jan Hus | History | Andrew den Boggende |
| Florida | .477 | 16 |
| 14 | Zambezi River | Geography | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .805 | 20 |
| 15 | Garden of Gethsemane | Literature | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .725 | 19 |
| 16 | Anne of Great Britain | History | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .660 | 18 |
| 17 | Robinhood | Current Events | Aidan Mehigan |
| New Jersey | .806 | 20 |
| 18 | Sumatra | Geography | Wesley Mathews |
| Arizona | .904 | 20 |
| 19 | black hole | Science & Math | Aidan Mehigan |
| New Jersey | .633 | 18 |
| 20 | Helios | Literature | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .634 | 18 |
| 21 | Seneca | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Andrew Fisher |
| United Kingdom | .875 | 20 |
| 22 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Literature | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .819 | 20 |
| 23 | Dodger Stadium | Pop Culture & Sports | Dan Puma |
| Illinois | .819 | 20 |
| 24 | quasars | Science & Math | James E. Lasker |
| Texas | .767 | 19 |
| 25 | Korean Demilitarized Zone or DMZ | History | Alex Li |
| Wisconsin | .802 | 20 |
| 26 | Charli XCX | Pop Culture & Sports | Sameen Belal |
| New York | .750 | 19 |
| 27 | (transverse) flute | Fine Arts | Neil Gurram |
| California | .893 | 20 |
| 28 | White House Press Secretary | History | Lee Henry |
| Alabama | .647 | 18 |
| 29 | Okazaki fragments | Science & Math | Jared Kushner |
| New York | .673 | 18 |
| 30 | Lisbon, Portugal | Geography | Kenji Shimizu |
| Michigan | .862 | 20 |
| 31 | Paris Commune | History | Neil Gurram |
| California | .827 | 20 |
| 32 | chairs | Fine Arts | Nic Mortimer |
| United Kingdom | .629 | 18 |
| 33 | (crude) oil | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Lorin Burte |
| Illinois | .203 | 12 |
| 34 | malaria | Science & Math | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .866 | 20 |
| 35 | (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt | History | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .795 | 20 |
| 36 | John Keats | Literature | Moses Kitakule |
| Maryland | .794 | 20 |
| 37 | cardinality | Science & Math | Andrew Fisher |
| United Kingdom | .860 | 20 |
| 38 | Friedrich Engels | Social Science | Neil Gurram |
| California | .756 | 19 |
| 39 | (the) cask of Amontillado | Literature | Lee Henry |
| Alabama | .785 | 20 |
| 40 | chlorophyll | Science & Math | Alex Dzurick |
| Pennsylvania | .558 | 17 |
| 41 | George Marshall | History | Jean Cui |
| New York | .666 | 18 |
| 42 | Secretary of Agriculture | Current Events | Janice Paton |
| Massachusetts | .472 | 16 |
| 43 | lilacs | Literature | Anderson Wang |
| Maryland | .792 | 20 |
| 44 | St. Louis, Missouri | Geography | Alex Dzurick |
| Pennsylvania | .882 | 20 |
| 45 | Nelson (Aldrich) Rockefeller | History | Brad Williams |
| Wisconsin | .771 | 20 |
| 46 | square numbers | Science & Math | Neil Gurram |
| California | .758 | 19 |
| 47 | Johann Pachelbel | Fine Arts | Kevin McCabe |
| Colorado | .658 | 18 |
| 48 | realism | Literature | Aidan Mehigan |
| New Jersey | .664 | 18 |
| 49 | Belfast | History | Simon Alvey |
| United Kingdom | .899 | 20 |
| 50 | free radicals | Science & Math | Sameen Belal |
| New York | .739 | 19 |
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.