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 |
| Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Columbia B | 59 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Florida State A | 59 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | LSE | 60 | -5 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Notre Dame C | 60 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 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 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT A | 75 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge 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 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan D | 93 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 93 | 10 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | Yale A | 93 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 93 | -5 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Tufts A | 93 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Binghamton A | 93 | -5 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 93 | -5 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 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 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 97 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 97 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Hannah Nieuwveld | Penn A | John Jay College | 100 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 100 | 10 |
| Jack Lenga | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western B | 101 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Ohio State B | 101 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield | Warwick B | 101 | -5 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UC Berkeley A | 101 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | BU | 101 | -5 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 101 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Warwick A | 108 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 108 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa | Notre Dame 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 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Penn A | 117 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | George Washington A | 117 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Oxford A | 117 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Michigan A | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 118 | 10 |
| Luke Ketchum | Missoui S&T | Chicago B | 118 | 0 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Southampton A | 118 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Cornell B | 118 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | George Washington B | 118 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford A | 118 | 0 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 118 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard B | 118 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 118 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 118 | 0 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Bristol | 118 | 0 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Manchester | 118 | 10 |