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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Minnesota B | 93 | -5 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | Yale A | 93 | -5 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Binghamton A | 93 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 93 | -5 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Tufts A | 93 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 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 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Iowa State | 96 | -5 |
| Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 96 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Illinois B | 97 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 97 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas A | 97 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 99 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Northwestern B | 99 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Kenyon | 99 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Durham | 99 | -5 |
| Hannah Nieuwveld | Penn A | John Jay College | 100 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 100 | 10 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Carleton | 101 | -5 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UC Berkeley A | 101 | -5 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard B | BU | 101 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 108 | 10 |
| Abigail Zimmerman | Iowa | Notre Dame A | 108 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Warwick 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 118 | 0 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 118 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard B | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Vincent | Northwestern B | Stanford B | 118 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida B | 118 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Michigan A | 118 | 0 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Carnegie Mellon A | 118 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 118 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Bristol | 118 | 0 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Manchester | 118 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Southampton A | 118 | 10 |