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# | Answer | Player | Region | Grade | Celerity | Points |
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1 | Warren G(amaliel) Harding | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .469 | 16 |
2 | Montezuma (II) | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .536 | 16 |
3 | Catherine the Great | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .626 | 18 |
4 | John Brown | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .455 | 15 |
5 | World War II | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .551 | 17 |
6 | Sparta | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .653 | 18 |
7 | Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .275 | 13 |
8 | Japan | Arnav Reddy | California | 8th | .198 | 12 |
9 | Earl Warren | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .000 | 10 |
10 | Battle of Trafalgar | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .384 | 14 |
11 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .123 | 11 |
12 | Portugal | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .388 | 15 |
13 | Italy | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .111 | 11 |
14 | Saint Francis of Assisi | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .202 | 12 |
15 | Dick Cheney | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .316 | 14 |
16 | Quebec | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .687 | 18 |
17 | Clinton | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .716 | 19 |
18 | (Nazi) concentration camps | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .479 | 16 |
19 | Church of England or Anglican Church | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .282 | 13 |
21 | Ferdinand Magellan | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .590 | 17 |
22 | Battle(s) of Saratoga | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .673 | 18 |
23 | China | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .111 | 11 |
24 | salt | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .823 | 20 |
25 | Nero | Arnav Reddy | California | 8th | .312 | 14 |
26 | (U.S. presidential election of) 1860 | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .449 | 15 |
27 | Erwin Rommel | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .350 | 14 |
28 | Argentina | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .000 | 10 |
29 | Rhode Island | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .340 | 14 |
30 | Louis XIV of France | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .360 | 14 |
31 | Baltimore, Maryland | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .239 | 13 |
32 | William Wallace | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .382 | 14 |
33 | Iraq | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .191 | 12 |
34 | Cherokee | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .108 | 11 |
35 | children | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .251 | 13 |
36 | Alfred Dreyfus | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .503 | 16 |
37 | Clarence (Seward) Darrow | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .005 | 10 |
38 | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .214 | 12 |
39 | Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .146 | 11 |
40 | Harrison | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .222 | 12 |
41 | Rwandan genocide | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .419 | 15 |
42 | First Barbary War | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .304 | 13 |
43 | Elizabeth I of England | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .406 | 15 |
44 | Phoenician civilization | Arnav Reddy | California | 8th | .473 | 16 |
45 | Speaker of the House (of Representatives) | Charles Heydt | Georgia | 8th | .123 | 11 |
46 | Nicholas II of Russia | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .466 | 16 |
47 | Mao Zedong | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .424 | 15 |
48 | Graham | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .007 | 10 |
49 | William the Conqueror | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .406 | 15 |
50 | Battle of Gettysburg | Rohan Ramachandran | Tennessee | 8th | .258 | 13 |
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.