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 |
| Jaik Havlick | Arizona State University A | Arizona State University B | 44 | 15 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | Art of Premature Signaling | 44 | -5 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Chicago B | 52 | 15 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Oberlin | 58 | 15 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | McGill A | 58 | 15 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto A | 58 | -5 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 58 | 15 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | BU | 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 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn 2026 | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 85 | 15 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | mongeese | 85 | 15 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | Gruh | 86 | 15 |
| Jeevika Setzer | Johns Hopkins B | Maryland A | 86 | 15 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | George Washington | 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 |
| 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 |
| Joy An | Harvard | RIT | 90 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Sheffield C | 90 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Warwick B | 90 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Toronto B | 90 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCSD | 91 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Iowa State | 91 | 10 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Free Agents 1 | 92 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | Caltech | 92 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Waterloo A | 92 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 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 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCSB | 127 | 10 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto E | 127 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | Claremont B | 128 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Sheffield B | 128 | 10 |
| Eric Anderson | South Dakota School of Mines | UW A | 129 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan D | 130 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | George Mason B | 130 | 10 |
| Nicholas Decker | George Mason A | Haverford A | 130 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial B | 132 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Waterloo C | 132 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | McGill B | 132 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | Carleton | 141 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Catholic University of America | 142 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCLA A | 142 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Warwick A | 142 | 10 |
| Parth Jagtap | Toronto A | Toronto Metropolitan | 146 | 10 |