In this novel, a magazine article details the strange visits of a black Mercedes to a “hanging house” where a murder-suicide previously took place. While typing to his wife over a computer, this novel’s protagonist confirms his wife’s identity by asking her a question to which the answer is “Jellyfish.” A woman in this novel who recalls how two zoo tigers were shot to death during the occupation of Manchukuo hires the protagonist after seeing a blue-black mark on his (*) cheek. In this novel, Lieutenant Mamiya fails to kill “Boris the Manskinner” after missing a shot from only six feet away. May Kasahara works at a wig factory in this novel with sections titled for a “thieving magpie” and a “prophesying bird.” For 10 points, Toru looks for his missing wife and missing cat in what novel by Haruki Murakami? ■END■
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| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford | Berkeley C | 20 | 15 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland | JHU B | 31 | 15 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts | Brandeis | 33 | 15 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech A | Duke A | 42 | 15 |
| Rahul Keyal | Ill-Advised Buzz | bruh | 47 | 15 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Harvard B | 54 | 15 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors | Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co | 54 | 15 |
| Carter McLean | Princeton | NYU A | 68 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard A | 69 | 15 |
| Tris Cole | TOAD | Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas | 69 | 15 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Minnesota | 70 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest. | We jopping | 79 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 80 | 10 |
| Adam Jones | 3HK1MM | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 80 | -5 |
| Oliver Hargrave | See it | Gressenheller A | 80 | 10 |
| Albery Nyang | LSE | Limp Chriskit | 83 | -5 |
| John Xiang | Berkeley B | Berkeley A | 88 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Texas B | 91 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford School for Quizness | Sorted | 107 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | WUSTL | 121 | 10 |
| William Golden | Houston | TAMU | 121 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Northwestern A | 125 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | UCF | UF B | 129 | -5 |
| Jim Fan | UNC B | UNC A | 130 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Say it | The Crying of Team 49 | 133 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Illinois C | 136 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame B | Chicago A | 136 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | JHU A | Columbia | 136 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon | 138 | -5 |
| David Neiman | Carnegie Mellon | Michigan A | 140 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 140 | 0 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Ohio State C | 140 | 0 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 140 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 140 | 0 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota | Illinois A | 140 | 0 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Notre Dame A | 140 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue | Northwestern B | 140 | 0 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago B | Notre Dame C | 140 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Purdue | 140 | 0 |
| Biniam Alaro | UF A | UF C | 140 | 10 |
| Leo Law | UF B | UCF | 140 | 10 |
| Iyanu Nafiu | Yale B | BU | 140 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Yale B | 140 | 0 |
| Ben Russel Jones | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 3HK1MM | 140 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Limp Chriskit | LSE | 140 | 10 |