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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Rowan A | 30 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | McGill 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 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 72 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern A | 72 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty A | 72 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCI | 88 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Nebraska | 88 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UCO | 88 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto D | 88 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Alberta B | 90 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Durham A | 90 | 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 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Tulsa | 93 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 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 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 114 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Chicago C | 114 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Macalester A | 114 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Queen's 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 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 117 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Alabama 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 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Columbia C | 121 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 121 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 121 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 121 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | James Madison | 121 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 121 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 121 | 10 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | UTD B | 124 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 124 | -5 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 124 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Carleton | 126 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 127 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 127 | 10 |
| Stanley Lam | McMaster B | Guelph B | 127 | 10 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 134 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Sewanee A | 134 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Purdue C | 134 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA A | 135 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 135 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Waterloo | 135 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa | Ohio | 138 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto F | 138 | 10 |