Season 5 Level C Week 4
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Quixote | Literature | Michael Joy |
| Michigan | .870 | 20 |
| 2 | crystals | Science & Math | Sarah Benner |
  
| Indiana | .843 | 20 |
| 3 | The Netherlands | Current Events | Anu Kashyap |
| California | .658 | 18 |
| 4 | To His Coy Mistress | Literature | Christopher Gismondi |
| Michigan | .874 | 20 |
| 5 | Cahokia Mounds | Social Science | Vishal Puppala |
| Missouri | .731 | 19 |
| 6 | (mineral) hardness | Science & Math | Michael Laudermith |
| Illinois | .804 | 20 |
| 7 | wolves or wolf | Literature | Stephen Liu |
| California | .873 | 20 |
| 8 | Dominican Republic | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Aaron Lichtig |
| Maryland | .713 | 19 |
| 9 | Italy | History | Steve Bahnaman |
| North Carolina | .771 | 20 |
| 10 | Carmen | Fine Arts | Peter Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | .854 | 20 |
| 11 | William Wordsworth | Literature | Tamara Vardomskaya |
| Canada | .808 | 20 |
| 12 | Mexico | History | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .723 | 19 |
| 13 | NYPD | Current Events | John Monahan |
| Europe | .594 | 17 |
| 14 | Penelope | Literature | Neil Gurram |
| California | .763 | 19 |
| 15 | Battle of Shiloh | History | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .847 | 20 |
| 16 | Freeman | Pop Culture & Sports | Joey Goldman |
| United Kingdom | .701 | 19 |
| 17 | 5 or five | Fine Arts | Vishal Puppala |
| Missouri | .837 | 20 |
| 18 | lichens | Science & Math | Alex Li |
| Wisconsin | .845 | 20 |
| 19 | sports | Social Science | Christopher Clough |
| United Kingdom | .669 | 18 |
| 20 | Denmark | History | Kenji Shimizu |
| Michigan | .864 | 20 |
| 21 | mass | Science & Math | Ben Rothenberg |
| District of Columbia | .851 | 20 |
| 22 | Donatello | Fine Arts | Jordan Brownstein |
| Virginia | .901 | 20 |
| 23 | Tennessee Williams | Literature | Eric Adams |
| Georgia | .861 | 20 |
| 24 | California | History | Victor Pavao |
| Massachusetts | .819 | 20 |
| 25 | Sudan | Geography | John Hanna |
| North Carolina | .710 | 19 |
| 26 | eye(s) | Science & Math | John Hanna |
| North Carolina | .647 | 18 |
| 27 | Hercule Poirot | Literature | Brian Weikle |
| Minnesota | .859 | 20 |
| 28 | Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz | Social Science | Jordan Brownstein |
| Virginia | .844 | 20 |
| 29 | Juneteenth | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Kenji Shimizu |
| Michigan | .866 | 20 |
| 30 | Saturn | Science & Math | James E. Lasker |
| Texas | .836 | 20 |
| 31 | Rome | Geography | John Monahan |
| Europe | .831 | 20 |
| 32 | Saddam Hussein (Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti) | History | Dan Puma |
| Illinois | .778 | 20 |
| 33 | polynomials or polynomial functions | Science & Math | Garrett Marcotte |
| California | .847 | 20 |
| 34 | Kentucky Derby | Pop Culture & Sports | Brad Williams |
| Wisconsin | .732 | 19 |
| 35 | Bangladesh | Geography | Steve Bahnaman |
| North Carolina | .751 | 19 |
| 36 | Glengarry Glen Ross | Literature | Jonathan Suh |
| District of Columbia | .838 | 20 |
| 37 | Switzerland | Science & Math | Stephen Liu |
| California | .814 | 20 |
| 38 | Herbert (Clark) Hoover | History | Anthony Peek |
| Louisiana | .861 | 20 |
| 39 | Julius Caesar | Literature | Aidan Mehigan |
| New Jersey | .896 | 20 |
| 40 | 4 | Science & Math | Max Espensen |
| United Kingdom | .811 | 20 |
| 41 | John F(itzgerald) Kennedy | History | Kenji Shimizu |
| Michigan | .649 | 18 |
| 42 | In the Heights | Pop Culture & Sports | Anthony DiCarlo |
| California | .846 | 20 |
| 43 | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Literature | Jordan Brownstein |
| Virginia | .867 | 20 |
| 44 | (32) Campbell’s Soup Cans | Fine Arts | Kenji Shimizu |
| Michigan | .795 | 20 |
| 45 | London | History | Michael Bentley |
| Washington | .822 | 20 |
| 46 | pendulums | Science & Math | Jimmy Dunn |
| Michigan | .702 | 19 |
| 47 | Newfoundland | Geography | Zane Placie |
| Georgia | .907 | 20 |
| 48 | Brazil | Current Events | Ben Rothenberg |
| District of Columbia | .760 | 19 |
| 49 | Ryunosuke Akutagawa | Literature | Ankit Aggarwal |
| California | .796 | 20 |
| 50 | Hawaiian Islands | History | Joey Goldman |
| United Kingdom | .793 | 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.