Question

While honeymooning, a man in this novel claims he’ll die of embarrassment if his wife requests that Oscar Wilde autograph her glove. In Edith Grossman’s translation, (10[1])a man in this novel is described as savoring the smell of his “urine that had been purified by lukewarm asparagus” at a Silver Jubilee meal. A couple in this novel almost divorce after having a prolonged argument about whether there was soap in their bathroom. An opera-lover who inspects the corpse of his former chess partner is reminded of one of this novel’s title concepts after (10[1])detecting the smell of bitter almonds in its opening sentence. An elderly man in this novel dies while climbing a ladder to retrieve his multilingual parrot. For 10 points, Dr. Juvenal Urbino treats the title disease in what novel by Gabriel García Márquez? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Love in the Time of Cholera [or El amor en los tiempos del cólera]
<TH, World Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kaiser XiaoUCLAUC Berkeley B2510
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AClaremont A9210
Nolan DannelsUCSDClaremont B13610

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