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 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon A | 84 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis 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 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | UNC C | 98 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Maryland A | 98 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | WashU B | 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 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford B | 102 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | ASU | 102 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 102 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 121 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 121 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 121 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Wisconsin B | 121 | -5 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Missoui S&T | 121 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | South Carolina | 128 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Vassar A | 128 | 10 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Penn A | 128 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Harvard B | 128 | 10 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Tufts 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 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | UCF C | 136 | 0 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Case Western A | 136 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | Case Western B | Ohio State A | 136 | 0 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan State | 136 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty A | 136 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford A | George Washington B | 136 | 10 |
| Kaiden Carey | Penn B | George Washington A | 136 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 136 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 136 | 0 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 136 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 136 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | BU | 136 | 10 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 136 | 10 |