Season 5 Level C Week 5
Best Buzzes
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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasco da Gama | History | Christopher Sims |
  
| Illinois | Grad. | .720 | 19 |
| 2 | Egypt | Fine Arts | Geoffrey McGee |
| Massachusetts | Grad. | .751 | 19 |
| 3 | Jules (Gabriel) Verne | Literature | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .807 | 20 |
| 4 | Battle of Marathon | History | Lia Rathburn |
| Canada | Grad. | .751 | 19 |
| 5 | sulfuric acid | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .783 | 20 |
| 6 | utopia | Social Science | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .781 | 20 |
| 7 | Isaac Asimov | Pop Culture & Sports | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Jr. | .494 | 16 |
| 8 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Literature | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Sr. | .848 | 20 |
| 9 | 1/2 | Science & Math | Jeremy Cummings |
| Missouri | Grad. | .808 | 20 |
| 10 | Kingdom of Hungary | History | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .738 | 19 |
| 11 | East of Eden | Literature | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Jr. | .868 | 20 |
| 12 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Pop Culture & Sports | Parth Jagtap |
| Canada | Jr. | .908 | 20 |
| 13 | Gustav (Theodore) Holst | Fine Arts | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Sr. | .615 | 17 |
| 14 | spleen | Science & Math | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Sr. | .608 | 17 |
| 15 | (Queen) Marie Antoinette | History | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .837 | 20 |
| 16 | Fagin | Literature | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .785 | 20 |
| 17 | Casablanca | Geography | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .671 | 18 |
| 18 | vectors | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .825 | 20 |
| 19 | Georgia | History | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .861 | 20 |
| 20 | Kyrie (Andrew) Irving | Pop Culture & Sports | Alexander Yang |
| Texas | Fr. | .588 | 17 |
| 21 | Canada Day | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Christopher Sims |
| Illinois | Grad. | .627 | 18 |
| 22 | E. M. Forster | Literature | Seoan Webb |
| United Kingdom | Jr. | .682 | 18 |
| 23 | North American Plate | Science & Math | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Jr. | .751 | 19 |
| 24 | Iraq | Social Science | Vikshar Athreya |
| Washington | Sr. | .757 | 19 |
| 25 | Spanish-American War | History | Alex Schmidt |
| Pennsylvania | Jr. | .670 | 18 |
| 26 | Castro | Current Events | Vikshar Athreya |
| Washington | Sr. | .585 | 17 |
| 27 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Literature | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Jr. | .588 | 17 |
| 28 | Barack Obama | History | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .795 | 20 |
| 29 | DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid | Science & Math | Kane Nguyen |
| Canada | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .838 | 20 |
| 30 | Ural Mountains | Geography | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .881 | 20 |
| 31 | Constantine I or Constantine the Great | History | Eric Wolfsberg |
| California | Grad. | .614 | 17 |
| 32 | semiconductor chips | Current Events | Lalit Maharjan |
| Indiana | 5th-Yr. Sr. | .703 | 19 |
| 33 | Panama Canal | Geography | Lia Rathburn |
| Canada | Grad. | .717 | 19 |
| 34 | New Orleans | Mixed & Miscellaneous | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .812 | 20 |
| 35 | Roald Dahl | Literature | Lia Rathburn |
| Canada | Grad. | .750 | 19 |
| 36 | Meta | Current Events | Christopher Sims |
| Illinois | Grad. | .595 | 17 |
| 37 | 6 | Science & Math | Andrew Fisher |
| United Kingdom | Grad. | .875 | 20 |
| 38 | Wales | Geography | Lia Rathburn |
| Canada | Grad. | .817 | 20 |
| 39 | Jacques-Louis David | Fine Arts | Michael Coates |
| California | Grad. | .734 | 19 |
| 40 | Tony Blair | History | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .813 | 20 |
| 41 | (Paul) Thomas Mann | Literature | Darren Petrosino |
| New Jersey | Jr. | .527 | 16 |
| 42 | frequency | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .710 | 19 |
| 43 | The Addams Family | Pop Culture & Sports | Andrew Fisher |
| United Kingdom | Grad. | .801 | 20 |
| 44 | Persephone | Literature | Alexander Yang |
| Texas | Fr. | .561 | 17 |
| 45 | Birmingham | History | Max Smiley |
| California | Grad. | .704 | 19 |
| 46 | mutation | Science & Math | Alexander Pyle |
| New York | Jr. | .847 | 20 |
| 47 | Sylvia Plath | Literature | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Sr. | .623 | 18 |
| 48 | Michigan | Current Events | Max Smiley |
| California | Grad. | .639 | 18 |
| 49 | electrons | Science & Math | Ashwath Seetharaman |
| Texas | Sr. | .799 | 20 |
| 50 | Andrew Jackson | History | Sam Wang |
| Pennsylvania | Fr. | .607 | 17 |
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.