This novel’s narrator describes composing a pastiche that parodies T.S. Eliot’s “Gerontion” and an essay on a “Proustian theme in a letter from Keats.” Descriptions of the similarity of motels open the second part of this novel, which centralizes the Hotel Mirana in a love story at its beginning. A man ascribes coincidences such as receiving hotel room 342 to Aubrey McFate in this novel. A girl tells her stepfather about learning sex from Barbara and Charlie at Camp Q in this novel while on a drive to (*) The Enchanted Hunters. While running to mail three letters in this novel after discovering her husband’s diary, Charlotte is killed in a car accident just outside of her house. The unreliable narrator of this novel repeatedly uses the word “nymphet” to refer to seductive schoolgirls. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by Humbert Humbert and written by Vladimir Nabokov. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 89% | 0% | 75.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 62.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 13% | 111.38 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 80.17 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 101.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 106.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 116.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 74.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 75.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 118.17 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | George Mason C | 32 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Lexington | 33 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 38 | 15 |
| George Matsumura | UW B | Washington Connections | 38 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Imperial A | 40 | -5 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | Art of Premature Signaling | 44 | -5 |
| Jaik Havlick | Arizona State University A | Arizona State University B | 44 | 15 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Chicago B | 52 | 15 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | BU | 58 | 15 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | McGill A | 58 | 15 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto A | 58 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Oberlin | 58 | 15 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 58 | 15 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 59 | 15 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | Quatumvirate | 61 | 15 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 61 | 15 |
| Daniel Merida | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | we need new names | 64 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Goober Gang | 68 | 15 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | Belmont | 69 | 15 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Illinois Orange | 76 | 15 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Illinois C | 79 | 15 |
| Danielle Webb | SIUE | Missouri | 82 | 15 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | WashU Charmander | 83 | 15 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | mongeese | 85 | 15 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn 2026 | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 85 | 15 |
| Jeevika Setzer | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland A | 86 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Gruh | 86 | 15 |
| Joy An | Harvard | RIT | 90 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | George Washington | 90 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Toronto B | 90 | 10 |
| Sam Matson | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 90 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 90 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield C | 90 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Warwick B | 90 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Michigan C | 90 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 90 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 90 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Iowa State | 91 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCSD | 91 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Waterloo A | 92 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 92 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | Caltech | 92 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Free Agents 1 | 92 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Squirtle | 94 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers | 99 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU | NYU C | 103 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | UW B | 110 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Mac A | Ottawa A | 114 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Edinburgh | 119 | 10 |
| Ethan Rhodes | Birmingham | Warwick C | 127 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto E | 127 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCSB | 127 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Sheffield B | 128 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | Claremont B | 128 | 10 |
| Eric Anderson | South Dakota School of Mines | UW A | 129 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | George Mason B | 130 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | Haverford A | 130 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan D | 130 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | McGill B | 132 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Waterloo C | 132 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial B | 132 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Carleton | 141 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Catholic University of America | 142 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Warwick A | 142 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCLA A | 142 | 10 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Toronto Metropolitan | 146 | 10 |