A child in this story is told to look after his older brother, who tries to feed gum to a goat. At the end of this story, a slip of paper containing an address floats away as a woman brushes her son’s hair. This story’s title character finds it unusual when a man refers to his wife by her first name while speaking to their daughter, Tina, who plays with the locks in his car. A woman in this story, who is asked if she’s really feeling pain rather than guilt, calls the title character’s job “romantic,” after which he fantasizes about her and admires her legs at the (*) Sun Temple. In this story, Mina drops a trail of puffed rice on the ground outside a monastery, attracting a group of monkeys to attack Bobby. This story takes its title from the second job of the Das family’s tour guide Mr. Kapasi. For 10 points, name this short story that lends its name to the debut collection of Jhumpa Lahiri. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 44% | 11% | 99.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 134.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 65.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 88% | 25% | 38% | 116.57 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 132.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 7 | 86% | 14% | 29% | 140.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 170.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 109.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 140.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 114.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 144.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 163.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 25 | 15 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | NYU C | 35 | 15 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | McGill B | 39 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 41 | 15 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Ottawa A | 42 | 15 |
| Andrew Gao | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Illinois Orange | 42 | 15 |
| Jacob Egol | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 42 | 15 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Alberta | 71 | 15 |
| Stan | Gruh | Auburn 2026 | 74 | 15 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | evil women enjoyers | 90 | 15 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto E | 90 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Washington Connections | 93 | 15 |
| Humzah Shaikh | George Mason A | George Mason C | 108 | -5 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Mahjonng Masters | 110 | -5 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | Claremont B | 110 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Goober Gang | 110 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Waterloo C | 110 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Too much from you lately | 113 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | Brown | 113 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Egypt Airlines Haters | Free Agents 1 | 113 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 113 | 10 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Iowa State | 113 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | Caltech | 114 | 10 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 114 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | CWRU | 117 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Guelph | 119 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | WashU Charmander | 119 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Ohio State C | 120 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 123 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Illinois A | 124 | 10 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Toronto D | 126 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan A | 126 | -5 |
| Ryan Happel | SIUE | WashU Squirtle | 126 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan B | 127 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 133 | 10 |
| Matthew Ribar | Arizona State University B | South Dakota School of Mines | 134 | 10 |
| Nathan Ouyang | Michigan C | Michigan D | 134 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | Harvard | 134 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | RIT | 134 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 134 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | girl 15 whale i mean they | 138 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Carleton | 139 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Rutgers | 139 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | Simon Fraser | 139 | -5 |
| Kethan Raman | UCLA A | UCLA B | 141 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Bulbasaur | 143 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | Lancaster | 150 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Mac A | 150 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Imperial A | 151 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Belmont | 158 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Georgetown | 160 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Imperial B | 169 | 10 |
| Dmitri Tran | UCSB | UCSD | 169 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 169 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Oberlin | 170 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 170 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | we need new names | 170 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Sheffield A | 170 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Warwick B | 170 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Sheffield C | 170 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Warwick C | 170 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | CWRU | Johns Hopkins A | 170 | 10 |
| Rose Phipps | George Mason C | George Mason A | 170 | 0 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | George Washington | 170 | 10 |
| Kevin He | Johns Hopkins B | Haverford B | 170 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Waterloo B | 170 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Illinois C | 170 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | UBC | 170 | 10 |