Question
Stanisław Lem wrote a short story collection titled “Fables for [these characters].” In one work, Busman is electrocuted while trying to bribe these characters into giving up control of the ship Ultimus. That play ends with Alquist calling two of these characters Adam and Eve. In that play, Helena Glory of the Humanity League burns the formula used to create these characters, before they storm the factory where the title character’s firm produces them. These characters are governed by “three laws” in Isaac Asimov stories. For 10 points, invented by Rossum in the play R.U.R., what type of artificial beings are known by a term coined by Karel Çapek ■END■
ANSWER: robots [accept equivalents like cyborgs or androids or automata; prompt on inanimate answers like machines or devices]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.67 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 71.56 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 66.86 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 14 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 76.14 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.89 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 44.00 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.86 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 66.56 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | South Carolina A | 36 | 10 |
| Jason Qin (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | Penn A (DII) | 38 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | 40 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Purdue C | 40 | 10 |
| Jeffery Xu | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 41 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana | Northwestern A | 41 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 43 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Duke A | 44 | 10 |
| Zoe Brennan | Virginia Tech B | UNC C | 44 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA C | 44 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | SIUE | 44 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | Michigan State A | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech A | 47 | 10 |
| Olin Bose (DII) | Columbia A (UG) | NYU A (UG) | 47 | 10 |
| Alex Wong (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Maryland A (DII) | 47 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC A | UW Greed | 48 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | UNC B | 48 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State B | UW Chastity | 49 | 10 |
| Timothy Porter | VCU | Liberty C | 53 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | UW Gluttony | UW Pride | 54 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | William & Mary | 61 | 10 |
| Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 61 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Chicago B | 61 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State A | Emory A | 66 | 10 |
| Nitin Murthy | Purdue A | Chicago A | 66 | -5 |
| Sammy Carstens | U of Rochester B | Binghamton B | 73 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State A | Alberta | 73 | 10 |
| Florian Chiu | UW Sloth | UW Envy | 73 | 10 |
| Rafeed Rahman Turjya | Georgia A | Auburn B | 73 | -5 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa B | Illinois B | 73 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Syracuse | 80 | 10 |
| Elijah Quan (DII) | Michigan C | Miami A (UG) | 80 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson (DII) | Ohio State A (UG) | Miami B (UG) | 80 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina B | Emory Oxford | 80 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Illinois D | 80 | 10 |
| Tom Scheri | RIT A | Binghamton C | 81 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Cornell E | 81 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa A | Illinois C | 81 | 10 |
| Ethan Maddox | U of Rochester A | Cornell A | 82 | 10 |
| Alicia Garlic | Cornell B | Cornell F | 82 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 82 | 10 |
| Brian Chen | Cornell G | RIT C | 82 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech B | 82 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson A | Southern | 82 | 10 |
| Brandon Hunt | Auburn C | Tennessee B | 82 | 10 |
| Jaden Bandy (DII) | Rutgers B | NYU B | 82 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Rowan A (DII) | 82 | 10 |
| Christopher Joseph | Notre Dame C | Illinois A | 82 | 10 |
| Riley Sherman | ESF | Penn State | 83 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 83 | 10 |
| Erin Chen | UBC B | UW Wrath | 83 | 10 |
| Ishaan Kashyap | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 83 | 10 |
| Ishaan Kashyap | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 83 | 10 |
| Ishaan Kashyap | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 83 | 10 |
| Hayes Brown | Furman | Clemson B | 83 | 10 |
| Michael Eng | UNC D | James Madison A | 83 | 10 |
| Max Khurzman | UNC A | NC State | 83 | 10 |
| Saif Virani (UG) | Fordham A | Columbia B | 83 | 10 |
| Kate Merritt (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 84 | 10 |
| Gavin Bramer | Appalachian State B | Virginia | 84 | 10 |
| Miller Doerr | Liberty B | Duke B | 84 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | Miami C (DII) | 86 | 10 |
| Jacob Bieri | Boise State | UW Lust | 88 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia A | 93 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago A | Purdue A | 97 | 10 |
| Justin Hetrick | Belmont | Vanderbilt B | 99 | 10 |
| Nidhi Kundargi (DII) | Michigan State B | Ohio State C (DII) | 101 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt A | 108 | 10 |