This author called growing older “the great unsexing” in an essay also reflecting on John Berger and Balthasar Denner’s painting Alte Frau. A term originally applied to this author was modified to apply to the overly emotional criticism of Jia Tolentino in Lauren Oyler’s essay “Ha ha! Ha ha!” This author critiqued Justin Bieber, the films Anomalisa and Get Out, and Dana Schutz’s Open Casket in the 2018 essay collection Feel Free. This author wrote about the housekeeper of William Harrison Ainsworth observing the Tichborne case in her 2023 novel The Fraud. James Wood coined the term “hysterical realism” to describe a 2000 novel by this author featuring the Londoners Samad Iqbal and Archie Jones. For 10 points, name this contemporary British author of White Teeth. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 115.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 88.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 110.75 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.20 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Missouri | 51 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 63 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 88 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | George Washington A | 88 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Haverford A | 89 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | John Jay College | 89 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 89 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 89 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 91 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | WashU A | 91 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Southampton A | 91 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Penn B | 91 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial B | 91 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Cambridge D | 93 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Chicago D | 96 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Missoui S&T | 96 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | George Washington B | 96 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Warwick B | 97 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Chicago B | 98 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Illinois C | 98 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU | Texas B | 98 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 106 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Bristol | 109 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | NYU B | 110 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | BU | 113 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 113 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 113 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Columbia C | 114 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 114 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis B | 114 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Tufts A | 114 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | UW A | 114 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC D | 118 | 10 |
| Ivvone Zhou | Penn A | Haverford B | 125 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | UNC C | 126 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 126 | 0 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Harvard A | 126 | 0 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty B | 126 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Brown A | 126 | 10 |