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■
| 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 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis A | 84 | 10 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon A | 84 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | WashU 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 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Maryland A | 98 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | WashU B | 98 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | UNC C | 98 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Minnesota B | 100 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | UNC D | 101 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | ASU | 102 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 102 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 102 | -5 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford B | 102 | 10 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | Haverford A | 108 | -5 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 116 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | Case Western A | Michigan C | 116 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Indiana B | 117 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Carnegie Mellon B | 118 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Virginia A | 118 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 121 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Missoui S&T | 121 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 121 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | Florida B | 121 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 121 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 121 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Harvard B | 128 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 128 | 10 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Tufts A | 128 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Penn A | 128 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | South Carolina | 128 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 131 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 133 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF B | Valencia A | 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 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 136 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 136 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 136 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Case Western A | 136 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | Case Western B | Ohio State A | 136 | 0 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 136 | 0 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | BU | 136 | 10 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 136 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | George Washington B | 136 | 10 |
| Kaiden Carey | Penn B | George Washington A | 136 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 136 | 0 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan State | 136 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty A | 136 | 10 |