Venice - 2025 PACE NSC - Buzzpoints App

Question

The freelance journalist Jeff Atman travels to this city to conduct an interview at a festival in a novel by Geoff Dyer. Another (20[1])book's protagonist ultimately travels to this city after standing outside another city's Byzantine mortuary chapel, (20[1])where (20[1])he notices a mysterious man (20[2])wearing (20[1])a straw (20[1])hat. (20[5])The protagonist (20[1])of a book (20[2])mainly (20[1])set in this (20[2])city, who perceives (20[1])a "summoner" before collapsing in a chair, (20[2])wrote (20[1])the (20[2])(*) novels Maia (10[3])and The Abject. (10[1])While on holiday in this city, (10[1])that novella's protagonist (10[1])eats overripe (10[3])strawberries (10[7])and develops cholera before watching Tadzio ("TAD-zhoh") play on the beach. For 10 points, (10[1])name this Italian city where Gustav (10[1])von Aschenbach ("ASH-un-back") dies in a novella by Thomas Mann. ■END■

ANSWER: Venice [or Venezia or Venedig; accept Death in Venice or Der Tod in Venedig; prompt on Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Travis Johnson	Great Valley	Fairfield County AT	22	20
Manu Sankaran	Lambert A	Hunter B	37	20
Jasper Xu	Westwood	Virginia	38	20
Tate Osborne	Alabama Cyber Tech	Thomas Jefferson C	43	20
Snehan Saroch	Russell	Carmel A	43	20
Ben Newman	Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Centennial B	44	20
Sheehan Banka	Northview	Irvington	46	20
Nathan Haley	Northmont	Chattahoochee B	47	20
Nick Murray	Detroit Catholic Central A	Kane County AT	47	20
Krish Chinta	Innovation Academy A	Northside College Prep	47	20
Soham Ray	Parkway West	Okemos	47	20
Abigail Lee	Thomas Jefferson A	Glenbrook South	47	20
Omkar Marathe	Fremd	Carmel B	49	20
Monit Karmakar	Adlai E. Stevenson A	Milton	52	20
William Condron	Strake Jesuit B	Winston Churchill B	52	20
Evan Schleck	Hunter A	Lee's Summit	53	20
Arjun Nair	Innovation Academy B	Montgomery Blair A	56	20
Maximilian Lin	Eastchester	Solon	56	20
Arianne Amasol	Yukon A	Saint Joseph	59	20
Simra Kuchay	Walter Payton A	Walker	66	20
Brodie Henry	West Point	Thomas Jefferson D	66	20
Aaron Wang	Seven Lakes	Montgomery Blair B	67	20
Ananth Ramsankar	Wayzata	Carl Sandburg	68	20
Lucia Gellert	Uni School of Nashville B	Johns Creek	68	20
Evan Ting	Park Tudor	Classen SAS	70	10
Shishir Bharadwaj	Lexington	Barrington	70	10
Jacob Higgs	Strake Jesuit A	Lincoln-Way East A	70	10
Arani Pittu	Lambert B	Homewood-Flossmoor	73	10
Anthony Xu	Thomas Jefferson B	White Pigeon	79	10
Abigail AuYeung	Hinsdale Central A	North Quincy	82	10
Amber Dong	Adlai E. Stevenson B	Uni School of Nashville A	84	10
Ava Madrazo	Herron	Belmont	84	10
Safiya Hasan	Lindbergh	Detroit Catholic Central C	84	10
Evan Gniadek	Quince Orchard	Chattahoochee A	85	10
Camden Williams	Audrain County AT	Detroit Catholic Central B	85	10
Ryan Smith	Downingtown STEM	Georgetown Day	85	10
Micah Chacon	Page	Winston Churchill A	85	10
Anthony Lau	Richard Montgomery	Yukon B	85	10
Arjun Vijaykumar	Saratoga	Thomas Jefferson E	85	10
Joshua Koch	Grosse Pointe South	Walter Payton B	85	10
Jo Adam	Edina	Lincoln-Way East B	98	10
Sahil Prasad	Centennial A	Coronado	104	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	42	100%	57%	0%	64.60