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 |
| 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 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Missouri | 75 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Vassar A | 85 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 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 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan D | 93 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 93 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | Yale A | 93 | -5 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Bruin A | 93 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | UCF B | 110 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Chicago D | 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 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 118 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Michigan A | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 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 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard B | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 118 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 118 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Bristol | 118 | 0 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Southampton A | 118 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford A | 118 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 118 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 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 |
| Luke Ketchum | Missoui S&T | Chicago B | 118 | 0 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 118 | 0 |