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 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty A | 72 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | NC State | 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 |
| 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 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCI | 88 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UCO | 88 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto D | 88 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Nebraska | 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 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 93 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina B | Clemson B | 93 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Virginia Tech A | 93 | 10 |
| Rae Meyers | Arizona State B | Tulsa | 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 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Chicago C | 114 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 114 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Macalester A | 114 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Toronto K | 115 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSB | 116 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 116 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 117 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Alabama A | 117 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 117 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Toronto I | 120 | 10 |
| Akshansh Chauhan | UTD A | Rose State | 120 | 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 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Minnesota C | 121 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 121 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 121 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 121 | 10 |
| Platon Gorokhov | Toronto F | Toronto J | 124 | -5 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | UTD B | 124 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's B | Western Ontario | 124 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Aarav Vasanthan | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 134 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Purdue C | 134 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Sewanee A | 134 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA A | 135 | 10 |
| James Xiao | Toronto E | Waterloo | 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 |