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| # | Answer | Category | Player | Awards | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Shepard | Film | Vedul Palavajjhala |
  
| Texas | 12th | .144 | 11 |
| 2 | Werner (Karl) Heisenberg | TV | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .702 | 19 |
| 3 | Medusa | Video Games | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .521 | 16 |
| 4 | Nikita (Sergeyevich) Khrushchev | Film | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 12th | .212 | 12 |
| 5 | George W(alker) Bush | Music | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .197 | 12 |
| 6 | The Tell-Tale Heart | TV | Saahir Narang |
| Texas | 11th | .576 | 17 |
| 7 | Myers-Briggs Type Indicator | Other PC | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .133 | 11 |
| 8 | Dante Alighieri | Film | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .105 | 11 |
| 9 | Albert Einstein | Comics | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .356 | 14 |
| 10 | Pinkerton National Detective Agency | Video Games | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .595 | 17 |
| 11 | Jane Seymour | Other PC | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .053 | 10 |
| 12 | John Glenn | Film | Emily Fletcher |
| Texas | 10th | .437 | 15 |
| 13 | Norman (Percevel) Rockwell | Music | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .284 | 13 |
| 14 | Gerald Ford | TV | Grant Koh |
| Illinois | 10th | .245 | 13 |
| 15 | Francisco Franco | Film | Ryan Presler |
| South Dakota | 11th | .194 | 12 |
| 16 | The Troubles | Music | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 12th | .730 | 19 |
| 17 | Mahatma Gandhi | Video Games | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .544 | 17 |
| 18 | Kansas | Other PC | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .029 | 10 |
| 19 | (Saint) Mary Magdalene | Musicals | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .373 | 14 |
| 20 | Frédéric (François) Chopin | Video Games | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .034 | 10 |
| 21 | Catherine the Great | TV | Mia Wichman |
| Illinois | 12th | .226 | 12 |
| 22 | Erie Canal | Other PC | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .395 | 15 |
| 23 | oxytocin | Music | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .542 | 17 |
| 24 | Fred Hampton | Film | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .240 | 13 |
| 25 | Vlad Dracula | Comics | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 11th | .381 | 14 |
| 26 | Lee Harvey Oswald | TV | Ryan Presler |
| South Dakota | 11th | .105 | 11 |
| 27 | fractals | Other PC | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .325 | 14 |
| 28 | Johann Pachelbel | Music | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .261 | 13 |
| 29 | Frida Kahlo de Rivera | Film | Emily Fletcher |
| Texas | 10th | .259 | 13 |
| 30 | selenium | Film | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .021 | 10 |
| 31 | Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso | Music | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .227 | 12 |
| 32 | State of the Union address | TV | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .314 | 14 |
| 33 | Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt | Musicals | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .503 | 16 |
| 34 | Frank Herbert | Music | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 12th | .267 | 13 |
| 35 | seven seals of God | Film | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 12th | .237 | 13 |
| 36 | Tyrannosaurus rex | TV | Saahir Narang |
| Texas | 11th | .473 | 16 |
| 37 | Tom Stoppard | Film | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .304 | 13 |
| 38 | George Washington | Other PC | Ryan Presler |
| South Dakota | 11th | .424 | 15 |
| 39 | mass | Video Games | Emily Fletcher |
| Texas | 10th | .321 | 14 |
| 40 | Anne Frank | Music | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .738 | 19 |
| 41 | William F. Buckley | Other PC | Ryan Presler |
| South Dakota | 11th | .723 | 19 |
| 42 | The Road Not Taken | TV | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 11th | .615 | 17 |
| 43 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Film | Ryan Presler |
| South Dakota | 11th | .224 | 12 |
| 44 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Comics | Vedul Palavajjhala |
| Texas | 12th | .342 | 14 |
| 45 | Louvre Museum | Music | Brody Johnson |
| Kentucky | 11th | .412 | 15 |
| 46 | Chernobyl (nuclear) disaster | TV | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .260 | 13 |
| 47 | electric flux | Film | Ryan Sun |
| California | 12th | .418 | 15 |
| 48 | H. P. Lovecraft | Other PC | Jack Rado |
| Ohio | 11th | .718 | 19 |
| 49 | Oxford comma(s) | Music | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 12th | .166 | 12 |
| 50 | Holocaust | TV | Nolan Jones |
| Indiana | 12th | .045 | 10 |
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.