Question
While honeymooning, a man in this novel claims he’ll die of embarrassment if his wife requests that Oscar Wilde autograph her glove. In Edith Grossman’s translation, a man in this novel is described as savoring the smell of his “urine that had been purified by lukewarm asparagus” at a Silver Jubilee meal. A couple in this novel almost divorce after having a prolonged argument about whether there was soap in their bathroom. An opera-lover who inspects the corpse of his former chess partner is reminded of one of this novel’s title concepts after detecting the smell of bitter almonds in its opening sentence. An elderly man in this novel dies while climbing a ladder to retrieve his multilingual parrot. For 10 points, Dr. Juvenal Urbino treats the title disease in what novel by Gabriel García Márquez? ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.33 |
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 112.60 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 101.17 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.50 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 117.50 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 115.00 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 121.00 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 115.56 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 25 | 10 |
Johanna Bryant | Liberty C | UNC B | 46 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 47 | -5 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia B | 75 | 10 |
Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech A | 81 | 10 |
Noah Dean | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon A | 84 | 10 |
Alvin Guo | Chicago D | WashU A | 84 | 10 |
Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis A | 84 | 10 |
Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 89 | 10 |
Sachin Poobalasingham | Wake Forest | Liberty B | 91 | 10 |
Aden Sun | Chicago B | Indiana A | 91 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 92 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Illinois C | 92 | 10 |
Tai Belke | UBC | Alberta | 95 | 10 |
Chris Yoo | William & Mary | UNC C | 98 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois A | WashU B | 98 | 10 |
William Orr | Yale A | Maryland A | 98 | 10 |
Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 100 | 10 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 101 | 10 |
Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 102 | -5 |
Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 102 | -5 |
Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | ASU | 102 | 10 |
Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford B | 102 | 10 |
Peter Lutz | George Washington B | Haverford A | 108 | -5 |
Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Michigan C | 116 | -5 |
Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 116 | 10 |
Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Indiana B | 117 | 10 |
Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 118 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Virginia A | 118 | -5 |
Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | Florida B | 121 | 10 |
Owen Arneson | Missouri | Missoui S&T | 121 | 10 |
John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 121 | -5 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 121 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 121 | 10 |
Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 121 | 10 |
Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | South Carolina | 128 | -5 |
William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Tufts A | 128 | 10 |
Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Harvard B | 128 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 128 | 10 |
Derek Chen | Columbia C | Penn A | 128 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 131 | 10 |
Anna Barker | UCF B | Valencia A | 133 | 10 |
John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 133 | 10 |
Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | ESF A | 134 | 10 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Duke | 135 | 10 |
Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Winona State | 135 | 10 |
Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 135 | 10 |
Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 136 | 10 |
Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 136 | 0 |
Anthony Yin | Case Western B | Ohio State A | 136 | 0 |
Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan State | 136 | 10 |
Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Case Western A | 136 | 10 |
Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty A | 136 | 10 |
Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 136 | 0 |
Mason Yu | Brown A | BU | 136 | 10 |
Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 136 | 0 |
Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 136 | 10 |
Britton Webster | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 136 | 10 |
Audrey Cho | Haverford A | George Washington B | 136 | 10 |
Kaiden Carey | Penn B | George Washington A | 136 | 10 |