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 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 89 | 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 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia A | 91 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | Chicago C | WashU A | 91 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial B | 91 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Southampton A | 91 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Penn 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 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 113 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | BU | 113 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 113 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis B | 114 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Tufts A | 114 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | UW A | 114 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 114 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Columbia C | 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 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Brown A | 126 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Liberty B | 126 | 10 |