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 |
| 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 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Johns Hopkins A | 75 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | RIT A | 75 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Oxford B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 93 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 97 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 97 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Kenyon | 99 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Northwestern B | 99 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Durham | 99 | -5 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 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 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 101 | -5 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Ohio State B | 101 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 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 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 118 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Southampton A | 118 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 118 | 0 |