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 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto C | 72 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Guelph A | 72 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern A | 72 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago A | Kentucky | 72 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Louisville A | 72 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty A | 72 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 72 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 72 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Iowa | 74 | -5 |
| Devito Stevanus | McGill D | Northwestern B | 74 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 74 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto D | 88 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UCO | 88 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCI | 88 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Nebraska | 88 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Alberta B | 90 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Durham A | 90 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 93 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Tulsa | 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 |
| Connor King | St. Thomas | Minnesota B | 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 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 114 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Chicago C | 114 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Macalester A | 114 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto K | 115 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 116 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSB | 116 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Alabama A | 117 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 117 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 117 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Rose State | 120 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto I | 120 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 121 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 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 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Columbia C | 121 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 121 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 124 | 10 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | UTD B | 124 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 124 | -5 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Carleton | 126 | 10 |
| Stanley Lam | McMaster B | Guelph B | 127 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 127 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 127 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Sewanee A | 134 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Purdue C | 134 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 134 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 135 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA A | 135 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Waterloo | 135 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Ohio | 138 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto F | 138 | 10 |