Season 5 Level A Week 7
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matrix or matrices | Science & Math | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
  
| Kentucky | .892 | 20 |
| 2 | California | Current Events | Dan Puma |
| Illinois | .763 | 19 |
| 3 | Ford Motor Company | History | Anthony Walker-Pearson |
 
| Europe | .775 | 20 |
| 4 | baseball | Literature | Brendan Aydt |
| Illinois | .772 | 20 |
| 5 | standard deviations | Science & Math | Scott Latchem |
| California | .696 | 19 |
| 6 | Jimmy Fallon | Pop Culture & Sports | Ben Rothenberg |
| District of Columbia | .782 | 20 |
| 7 | Bering Strait | Geography | Josh Hill |
| Arkansas | .803 | 20 |
| 8 | endoplasmic reticulum or ER | Science & Math | Siddharth Hariharan |
 
| Maryland | .746 | 19 |
| 9 | French language | Literature | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
| Kentucky | .705 | 19 |
| 10 | Vladimir (Ilyich) Lenin | History | Brian Weikle |
| Minnesota | .687 | 18 |
| 11 | Louis Pasteur | Science & Math | Gerry Tansey |
| Missouri | .687 | 18 |
| 12 | Challenger | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Chris Ottolino |
| Missouri | .841 | 20 |
| 13 | Grant (DeVolson) Wood | Fine Arts | Aaron Lichtig |
| Maryland | .679 | 18 |
| 14 | Hephaestus | Literature | Barbara White |
| Missouri | .632 | 18 |
| 15 | Doctor Faustus | Literature | Arthur Walden Lechner |
| North Carolina | .756 | 19 |
| 16 | witches | History | Ben Rothenberg |
| District of Columbia | .776 | 20 |
| 17 | radio waves | Science & Math | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
| Kentucky | .746 | 19 |
| 18 | depression | Social Science | Daniel Feitel |
| District of Columbia | .870 | 20 |
| 19 | James | History | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .809 | 20 |
| 20 | jet streams | Science & Math | Liz Fujita |
| Michigan | .666 | 18 |
| 21 | Paradise Lost | Literature | Daniel Feitel |
| District of Columbia | .782 | 20 |
| 22 | Houston Astros | Pop Culture & Sports | Jimmy Dunn |
| Michigan | .738 | 19 |
| 23 | sodium chloride or NaCl | Science & Math | Parikshit Chauhan |
| California | .482 | 16 |
| 24 | Battle of Bunker Hill | History | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .866 | 20 |
| 25 | Australia | Geography | Ken Mitchell |
| California | .876 | 20 |
| 26 | Nikola Tesla | Science & Math | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
| Kentucky | .730 | 19 |
| 27 | Ottoman Empire | History | Colin Mason |
| Pennsylvania | .800 | 20 |
| 28 | Georgia | Current Events | Colin Mason |
| Pennsylvania | .811 | 20 |
| 29 | paradox(es) | Social Science | Seth Kleinerman |
| New York | .712 | 19 |
| 30 | King David | Fine Arts | Dana Thurmond |
| Florida | .851 | 20 |
| 31 | Walk Like an Egyptian | Pop Culture & Sports | Andrew Dupont |
| California | .611 | 17 |
| 32 | titration | Science & Math | Ben Rothenberg |
| District of Columbia | .767 | 19 |
| 33 | Liberia | History | Carl Tjo |
| California | .747 | 19 |
| 34 | 1950s | Social Science | Dan Puma |
| Illinois | .830 | 20 |
| 35 | Moses | Literature | Arthur Walden Lechner |
| North Carolina | .823 | 20 |
| 36 | neutrons | Science & Math | Alex Li |
| Wisconsin | .831 | 20 |
| 37 | fire | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .766 | 19 |
| 38 | Seine River | Geography | Joshua Grischow |
| Ohio | .713 | 19 |
| 39 | A Tale of Two Cities | Literature | Chris Ottolino |
| Missouri | .720 | 19 |
| 40 | Xi Jinping | Current Events | Ben Rothenberg |
| District of Columbia | .733 | 19 |
| 41 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or U.K. | History | Toby Cox |
| United Kingdom | .803 | 20 |
| 42 | Rip Van Winkle | Literature | Wesley Mathews |
| Arizona | .811 | 20 |
| 43 | (linear) momentum | Science & Math | Alex Li |
| Wisconsin | .824 | 20 |
| 44 | turkeys | History | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .740 | 19 |
| 45 | German language | Literature | Ramapriya Rangaraju |
| Kentucky | .767 | 19 |
| 46 | five | Fine Arts | Siddharth Hariharan |
| Maryland | .778 | 20 |
| 47 | (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson | History | Scott Latchem |
| California | .813 | 20 |
| 48 | Detroit, Michigan | Geography | Carl Tjo |
| California | .850 | 20 |
| 49 | Call of Duty | Pop Culture & Sports | Sam German |
| Minnesota | .746 | 19 |
| 50 | Sylvia Plath | Literature | David Dennis |
| Missouri | .742 | 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.