Question
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■
ANSWER: adrenal glands [accept adrenal medulla]
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Summary
| 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 |
Buzzes
| 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 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Notre Dame C | 60 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | LSE | 60 | -5 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Missouri | 75 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 75 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Oxford B | 75 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Johns Hopkins 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 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 93 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan D | 93 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 93 | -5 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Tufts A | 93 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 93 | -5 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | Yale A | 93 | -5 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Binghamton A | 93 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Illinois B | 97 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 97 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 97 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Kenyon | 99 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 99 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Northwestern B | 99 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Durham | 99 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 100 | 10 |
| Hannah Nieuwveld | Penn A | John Jay College | 100 | -5 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UC Berkeley A | 101 | -5 |
| Jack Lenga | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western B | 101 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Ohio State B | 101 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 101 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | BU | 101 | -5 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield | Warwick B | 101 | -5 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Oxford C | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland B | 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 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | UCF B | 110 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Chicago D | 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 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 118 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 118 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Michigan A | 118 | 0 |
| Luke Ketchum | Missoui S&T | Chicago B | 118 | 0 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Winona State | 118 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Wisconsin A | 118 | 0 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 118 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard B | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 118 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 118 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Southampton A | 118 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Manchester | 118 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Bristol | 118 | 0 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Cornell B | 118 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford A | 118 | 0 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | George Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 118 | 0 |