Season 5 Level A Week 1
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acids | Science & Math | Shane Whitlock |
 
| Arkansas | .891 | 20 |
| 2 | Greenland | Geography | Wesley Mathews |
 
| Arizona | .840 | 20 |
| 3 | guillotine | History | Ben Kirk |
 
| New York | .826 | 20 |
| 4 | Sherlock Holmes | Literature | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
| Kentucky | .733 | 19 |
| 5 | Venice | Geography | Shane Whitlock |
| Arkansas | .875 | 20 |
| 6 | Great Red Spot | Science & Math | Alex Li |
 
| Wisconsin | .764 | 19 |
| 7 | Oscar Wilde | Literature | Nic Mortimer |
| United Kingdom | .787 | 20 |
| 8 | Andrew (Mark) Cuomo | Current Events | Jake Stone |
| Georgia | .785 | 20 |
| 9 | Mao Zedong | History | Jimmy Li |
| California | .778 | 20 |
| 10 | Coco | Pop Culture & Sports | Danny Osborne |
| Alabama | .761 | 19 |
| 11 | World War II | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Lars Melton |
| Virginia | .688 | 18 |
| 12 | malaria | Science & Math | Toby Cox |
| United Kingdom | .789 | 20 |
| 13 | South Africa | Literature | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .851 | 20 |
| 14 | Theodore Roosevelt | History | Brian Weikle |
| Minnesota | .858 | 20 |
| 15 | 2 or two | Science & Math | Shane Whitlock |
| Arkansas | .787 | 20 |
| 16 | Huckleberry Finn | Literature | Matthew Given |
| Louisiana | .829 | 20 |
| 17 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Fine Arts | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .794 | 20 |
| 18 | New Zealand | Geography | Dargan Ware |
| Alabama | .834 | 20 |
| 19 | Voltaire | Literature | Parikshit Chauhan |
| California | .726 | 19 |
| 20 | Boston Red Sox | Pop Culture & Sports | Jeff Frank |
| Indiana | .814 | 20 |
| 21 | cello(s) | Fine Arts | Parikshit Chauhan |
| California | .794 | 20 |
| 22 | (Gaius) Julius Caesar | History | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .883 | 20 |
| 23 | electrical resistance | Science & Math | Nate Kane |
| Arizona | .741 | 19 |
| 24 | horses | Fine Arts | Parikshit Chauhan |
| California | .757 | 19 |
| 25 | Prince Hamlet | Literature | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .850 | 20 |
| 26 | (Pallas) Athena | Literature | Arlo Lyle |
| Minnesota | .740 | 19 |
| 27 | photons | Science & Math | Sarah Benner |
| Indiana | .795 | 20 |
| 28 | Hong Kong | Current Events | Richard Wang |
| Canada | .620 | 18 |
| 29 | Incan empire | History | Jacob O'Rourke |
| Missouri | .789 | 20 |
| 30 | Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson | Literature | Michael Laudermith |
| Illinois | .830 | 20 |
| 31 | Missouri River | Geography | Gerry Tansey |
| Missouri | .756 | 19 |
| 32 | Ireland | History | Eric Douglass |
| South Carolina | .746 | 19 |
| 33 | RNA | Science & Math | Michael Laudermith |
| Illinois | .873 | 20 |
| 34 | Jeff Bezos | Current Events | Sam Ferguson |
| North Carolina | .770 | 20 |
| 35 | AIDS | History | Deb Wells |
| Pennsylvania | .848 | 20 |
| 36 | Pablo Picasso | Fine Arts | Michael Laudermith |
| Illinois | .811 | 20 |
| 37 | Nile River | Geography | Eric Adams |
| Georgia | .813 | 20 |
| 38 | Soviet Union | History | Eric Douglass |
| South Carolina | .771 | 20 |
| 39 | 7 | Science & Math | Ben Kirk |
| New York | .878 | 20 |
| 40 | Don Quixote (de La Mancha) | Literature | John Kocsis |
| Virginia | .807 | 20 |
| 41 | George Washington | History | Eric Adams |
| Georgia | .860 | 20 |
| 42 | Nintendo | Pop Culture & Sports | Sean Jackson |
| South Carolina | .834 | 20 |
| 43 | international trade | Social Science | David Kiang |
| Illinois | .648 | 18 |
| 44 | The Prince | Social Science | Daniel Ogburn |
| Virginia | .758 | 19 |
| 45 | honey | Science & Math | Sarah Benner |
| Indiana | .808 | 20 |
| 46 | Queen Victoria | History | Eric Adams |
| Georgia | .822 | 20 |
| 47 | universities | Current Events | Jean Cui |
| New York | .736 | 19 |
| 48 | New Mexico | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Daniel Feitel |
| District of Columbia | .852 | 20 |
| 49 | 90 degrees | Science & Math | Daniel Feitel |
| District of Columbia | .915 | 20 |
| 50 | Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill | Literature | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .719 | 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.