The “crux” of this concept is lacking “means by which to render our lives believable” according to a speech that opens by describing Antonio Pigafetta as a precursor to modern novelists. In a novel whose title ends with this word, a woman sends her daughter to a convent for having a baby with a mechanic. William Faulkner is called “my master” in a Nobel acceptance speech titled for this concept “of Latin America.” This word ends the title of a novel in which 17 brothers with Ash Wednesday crosses are shot in the head. A novel whose title ends with this word opens with the protagonist remembering how his father took him to see ice and chronicles generations of the Buendía family. For 10 points, Gabriel García Márquez wrote a novel titled “One Hundred Years of” what concept? ■END■
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 101.50 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 106.31 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.40 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.50 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.40 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 99.88 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 108.75 |
| UK | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | McGill A | 30 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rowan A | 30 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Liberty B | 49 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech A | 59 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 67 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Kentucky | 72 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Louisville A | 72 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 72 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 72 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Guelph A | 72 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty A | 72 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 72 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern A | 72 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 74 | -5 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Iowa | 74 | -5 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Northwestern B | 74 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Michigan B | 75 | 10 |
| Austin Guo | Princeton A | Rutgers B | 80 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 80 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | Claremont Scripps | 84 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Nebraska | 88 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UCO | 88 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto D | 88 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCI | 88 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Alberta B | 90 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Durham A | 90 | 10 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Minnesota B | 93 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Tulsa | 93 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 93 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 93 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Clemson B | 93 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Virginia Tech A | 93 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan D | 102 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 105 | -5 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Southampton B | 106 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia Tech B | 109 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Queen's A | 114 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Chicago C | 114 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Macalester A | 114 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 114 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto K | 115 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSB | 116 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 116 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 117 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 117 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Alabama A | 117 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto I | 120 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Rose State | 120 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Columbia C | 121 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 121 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 121 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 121 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | James Madison | 121 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 121 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 121 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 124 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 124 | -5 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | UTD B | 124 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Carleton | 126 | 10 |
| Stanley Lam | McMaster B | Guelph B | 127 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 127 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 127 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 134 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Purdue C | 134 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Sewanee A | 134 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Waterloo | 135 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA A | 135 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 135 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto F | 138 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Ohio | 138 | 10 |