In this novel, a water gun is filled with urine and sprayed on a character by a boy who is beaten with a prosthetic limb in revenge. The title of this novel comes from a poem by Saib Tabrizi that mentions how “every street” of its primary setting is “enthralling to the eye.” In this novel, one character is forced to chew rocks by her shoemaker husband after not cooking rice sufficiently. A businessman in this novel lies about being on a trip to avoid seeing the movie Pinocchio with his daughter due to her status as a harami, or bastard. In this novel, Mullah Faizullah teaches Miriam to read the Quran decades before she kills her husband to defend his younger second wife, Laila. For 10 points, Kabul is the setting of what 2007 novel by Khaled Hosseini written after The Kite Runner? ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.67 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 90.40 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 90.75 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.50 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 142.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 115.00 |
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| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 114.33 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 30% | 113.57 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 128.67 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 140.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Michigan D | 13 | 10 |
| Cade Smith | Michigan State | Ohio State A | 14 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame A | 28 | -5 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | South Carolina | 31 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | BU | 32 | -5 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Oxford C | 38 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois A | 47 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | Purdue | 71 | 10 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary | Wake Forest | 71 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UBC | 93 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | NYU B | 95 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Southampton A | 100 | 10 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | Brown A | 100 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago B | 100 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield | LSE | 103 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 104 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Louisville A | 105 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Warwick B | 106 | -5 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | UMass Boston | 106 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Bristol | 109 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Dartmouth A | 111 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech B | 111 | 10 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | RIT A | 112 | -5 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 113 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Northwestern A | 113 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC B | 117 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Rutgers A | 117 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF C | 124 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF B | 124 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC C | 126 | -5 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Vanderbilt A | 127 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Georgetown B | 128 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Penn B | 134 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington A | 134 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Carnegie Mellon A | 135 | -5 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida A | 135 | -5 |
| Elias Kradel | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon B | 136 | -5 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan A | 137 | -5 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Winona State | 137 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 137 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Kenyon | 138 | 0 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 138 | 10 |
| Jon White | Cambridge E | Warwick A | 138 | -5 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Harvard B | 138 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan C | 138 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | UNC D | Liberty A | 138 | -5 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 138 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 138 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF A | 138 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Columbia C | 138 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Maryland A | 139 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 139 | -5 |
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Notre Dame B | 140 | 0 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Case Western B | 142 | -5 |
| Meredith Wiper | Case Western B | Ohio State B | 143 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Tufts A | 143 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Notre Dame C | 143 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western A | 144 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Liberty B | 144 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Oxford A | 144 | 0 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge E | 144 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Durham | 144 | 0 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Oxford B | 144 | 10 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | John Jay College | 144 | 0 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | George Washington B | 144 | 0 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Maryland B | 144 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech D | 144 | 0 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | Valencia A | 144 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Wisconsin A | 144 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 144 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Georgetown A | 144 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 144 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Haverford B | 144 | 10 |