Season 5 Level A Week 7
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matrix or matrices | Science & Math | Cindy Gao |
  
| Massachusetts | 11th | .797 | 20 |
| 2 | California | Current Events | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .744 | 19 |
| 3 | Ford Motor Company | History | Cindy Gao |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .788 | 20 |
| 4 | baseball | Literature | Augustine Cabello |
 
| Michigan | 10th | .751 | 19 |
| 5 | standard deviations | Science & Math | Nathaniel Williams |
| Illinois | 11th | .569 | 17 |
| 6 | Jimmy Fallon | Pop Culture & Sports | Curtis Roselle |
 
| Illinois | 10th | .648 | 18 |
| 7 | Bering Strait | Geography | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .809 | 20 |
| 8 | endoplasmic reticulum or ER | Science & Math | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 9th | .794 | 20 |
| 9 | French language | Literature | Nathaniel Williams |
| Illinois | 11th | .694 | 19 |
| 10 | Vladimir (Ilyich) Lenin | History | Drew Laroo |
| Michigan | 12th | .724 | 19 |
| 11 | Louis Pasteur | Science & Math | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 12th | .837 | 20 |
| 12 | Challenger | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .846 | 20 |
| 13 | Grant (DeVolson) Wood | Fine Arts | Will Carstens |
| Michigan | 11th | .773 | 20 |
| 14 | Hephaestus | Literature | Dominic Aiello |
| Michigan | 11th | .812 | 20 |
| 15 | Doctor Faustus | Literature | Will McCollom |
| Arizona | 9th | .242 | 13 |
| 16 | witches | History | Cindy Gao |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .783 | 20 |
| 17 | radio waves | Science & Math | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 12th | .821 | 20 |
| 18 | depression | Social Science | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .900 | 20 |
| 19 | James | History | Nikky Nandipati |
| Texas | 10th | .810 | 20 |
| 20 | jet streams | Science & Math | Robert Struble |
| Illinois | 11th | .639 | 18 |
| 21 | Paradise Lost | Literature | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 12th | .635 | 18 |
| 22 | Houston Astros | Pop Culture & Sports | Landon Kerns |
| Illinois | 9th | .620 | 18 |
| 23 | sodium chloride or NaCl | Science & Math | Sinecio Morales |
| Illinois | 11th | .472 | 16 |
| 24 | Battle of Bunker Hill | History | Brent Raleigh |
| Kentucky | 11th | .863 | 20 |
| 25 | Australia | Geography | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .870 | 20 |
| 26 | Nikola Tesla | Science & Math | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .715 | 19 |
| 27 | Ottoman Empire | History | John Greene | Michigan | 12th | .880 | 20 | |
| 28 | Georgia | Current Events | Caitlin Lauwerens |
| Illinois | 12th | .839 | 20 |
| 29 | paradox(es) | Social Science | Tate Osborne |
| Alabama | 9th | .718 | 19 |
| 30 | King David | Fine Arts | Brent Raleigh |
| Kentucky | 11th | .766 | 19 |
| 31 | Walk Like an Egyptian | Pop Culture & Sports | James Norris |
| Alabama | 9th | .732 | 19 |
| 32 | titration | Science & Math | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 12th | .739 | 19 |
| 33 | Liberia | History | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 9th | .737 | 19 |
| 34 | 1950s | Social Science | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .674 | 18 |
| 35 | Moses | Literature | Will McCollom |
| Arizona | 9th | .668 | 18 |
| 36 | neutrons | Science & Math | Liam Cross |
| Michigan | 12th | .703 | 19 |
| 37 | fire | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .752 | 19 |
| 38 | Seine River | Geography | Brent Raleigh |
| Kentucky | 11th | .753 | 19 |
| 39 | A Tale of Two Cities | Literature | Ryan Presler |
| South Dakota | 11th | .703 | 19 |
| 40 | Xi Jinping | Current Events | Andrew Kil |
| Michigan | 11th | .708 | 19 |
| 41 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or U.K. | History | Maddie Baldwin |
| Michigan | 10th | .803 | 20 |
| 42 | Rip Van Winkle | Literature | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 12th | .820 | 20 |
| 43 | (linear) momentum | Science & Math | Charles Heydt |
| Georgia | 9th | .845 | 20 |
| 44 | turkeys | History | Cindy Gao |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .702 | 19 |
| 45 | German language | Literature | Cindy Gao |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .791 | 20 |
| 46 | five | Fine Arts | Nico Pascual |
| Michigan | 12th | .819 | 20 |
| 47 | (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson | History | Drew Laroo |
| Michigan | 12th | .807 | 20 |
| 48 | Detroit, Michigan | Geography | Michael Yousif |
| Michigan | 12th | .859 | 20 |
| 49 | Call of Duty | Pop Culture & Sports | Denver Haslett |
| Illinois | 12th | .679 | 18 |
| 50 | Sylvia Plath | Literature | Cindy Gao |
| Massachusetts | 11th | .783 | 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.