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 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | WashU A | 84 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis A | 84 | 10 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Carnegie Mellon A | 84 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 89 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Indiana A | 91 | 10 |
| Sachin Poobalasingham | Wake Forest | Liberty B | 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 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | WashU B | 98 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | UNC C | 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 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 102 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | ASU | 102 | 10 |
| Hrishit Chaudhuri | NYU B | Haverford B | 102 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Case Western B | 102 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | Cornell D | 121 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | RIT B | 121 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | Florida B | 121 | 10 |
| William Parocai | Dartmouth A | Tufts A | 128 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Harvard B | 128 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Winona State | 135 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 135 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Duke | 135 | 10 |
| Alex Smits | Wisconsin B | Carleton | 136 | 0 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | BU | 136 | 10 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | UMass Boston | 136 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont B | 136 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan State | 136 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Liberty A | 136 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |