One in four patients who have this organ removed to treat one disease may experience hyperpigmentation from [emphasize] another organ’s growth in Nelson’s syndrome. Surgical removal of an adenoma of this organ can prevent its overactivity in Conn’s syndrome. A failure to decrease the levels of one hormone is used to diagnose a condition of this organ in the dexamethasone suppression test. The organ of Zuckerkandl may be the origin of neoplasms of this organ called pheochromocytomas. The enzyme PNMT is primarily found in this organ’s chromaffin cells. This organ exhibits overactivity in Cushing’s disease, and it produces hormones like aldosterone and cortisol. For 10 points, name this paired organ that produces the main hormone found in an Epipen. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 104.67 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 95.67 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 102.40 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 70.40 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 100% | 118.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 60% | 65.00 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 60% | 76.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 107.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 101.50 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 50% | 98.88 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 63% | 105.14 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 91.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | WashU A | 22 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge D | 30 | -5 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Brown A | 37 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Valencia A | 46 | -5 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago C | 48 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 55 | -5 |
| Lily Morris | Bristol | Imperial B | 58 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Florida State A | 59 | 10 |
| Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Columbia B | 59 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 60 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | LSE | 60 | -5 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Notre Dame C | 60 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Missouri | 75 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Oxford B | 75 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Johns Hopkins A | 75 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 75 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT A | 75 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 85 | -5 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 85 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 86 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Iowa | 88 | -5 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Haverford B | 89 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 93 | -5 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 93 | -5 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Binghamton A | 93 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 93 | -5 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Tufts A | 93 | 10 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | Yale A | 93 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan D | 93 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 93 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| Virginia Stewart | Alabama A | Georgia Tech B | 95 | -5 |
| Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 96 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Iowa State | 96 | -5 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 97 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 97 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Illinois B | 97 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 99 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Northwestern B | 99 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Durham | 99 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Kenyon | 99 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 100 | 10 |
| Hannah Nieuwveld | Penn A | John Jay College | 100 | -5 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UC Berkeley A | 101 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | BU | 101 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield | Warwick B | 101 | -5 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 101 | -5 |
| Jack Lenga | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western B | 101 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Ohio State B | 101 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland B | 102 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Oxford C | 102 | 10 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford A | NYU B | 103 | -5 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 104 | -5 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa | Notre Dame A | 108 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Warwick A | 108 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 108 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 109 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Chicago D | 110 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | UCF B | 110 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Oxford A | 117 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Penn A | 117 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | George Washington A | 117 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 118 | 10 |
| Luke Ketchum | Missoui S&T | Chicago B | 118 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard B | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 118 | 0 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Bristol | 118 | 0 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Southampton A | 118 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford A | 118 | 0 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 118 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 118 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Winona State | 118 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 118 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin A | 118 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 118 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Manchester | 118 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Cornell B | 118 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | George Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Michigan A | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 118 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |