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■
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| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 90.40 |
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| 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 |
| Meredie Cohen | William & Mary | Wake Forest | 71 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | Purdue | 71 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UBC | 93 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | NYU B | 95 | 10 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | Brown A | 100 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Southampton 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 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | UMass Boston | 106 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Warwick B | 106 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Northwestern A | 113 | -5 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 113 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Georgetown B | 128 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | Manchester | 128 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Penn B | 134 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington A | 134 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida A | 135 | -5 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Carnegie Mellon A | 135 | -5 |
| Elias Kradel | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon B | 136 | -5 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Winona State | 137 | -5 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 137 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan A | 137 | -5 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Harvard B | 138 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Southampton B | 138 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Kenyon | 138 | 0 |
| Sam Kung | UNC D | Liberty A | 138 | -5 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 138 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 138 | 10 |
| Jon White | Cambridge E | Warwick A | 138 | -5 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF A | 138 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan C | 138 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Columbia C | 138 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 139 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Maryland A | 139 | -5 |
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Notre Dame B | 140 | 0 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Case Western B | 142 | -5 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Tufts A | 143 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Notre Dame C | 143 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | Case Western B | Ohio State B | 143 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech D | 144 | 0 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | Valencia A | 144 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western A | 144 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Liberty B | 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 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Oxford A | 144 | 0 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge E | 144 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Durham | 144 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 144 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Haverford B | 144 | 10 |