This writer contrasted the unambiguous nature of “classical” art with the aleatoric music of Stockhausen and Boulez, which he called “open work.” According to this author, texts are devices to produce “model readers.” This author used Wittgenstein’s family resemblance to describe “fourteen ways” in the essay “Ur-Fascism.” This writer called for a “communications guerilla warfare” in an essay collected in (*) Travels in Hyperreality. Three men in a book by this author form “The Plan” using a computer named for a Kabbalah philosopher, Abulafia. Medieval philosophers like Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon, along with Sherlock Holmes, inspired this author’s character William of Baskerville, who solves a murder in a Benedictine abbey. For 10 points, name this Italian semiotician who wrote The Name of the Rose. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 52.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 48.25 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 100% | 83% | 0% | 56.50 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 78.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 65.25 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 86% | 71% | 0% | 48.67 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 0% | 66.20 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 80% | 0% | 55.80 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 46.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 48.67 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 49.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 80% | 20% | 52.40 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Penn State | 36 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | The cult of SGA | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 45 | -5 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 46 | 15 |
| Derek Fino | Clark House | Bowdoin B | 46 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Amherst | 46 | 15 |
| Blake Johnson | Boston College A | Tufts A | 46 | 15 |
| William Orr | Yale | Harvard | 46 | 15 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Virginia Tech B | 46 | 15 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU | Squidward Community College | 46 | 15 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | UCF A | UF C | 46 | 15 |
| Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley A | 46 | 15 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley Past | 46 | 15 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 46 | 15 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 46 | 15 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto B | 46 | 15 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | Toronto Metropolitan A | 46 | 15 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | 46 | 15 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Milton | 46 | 15 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Johns Creek | 46 | 15 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Notre Dame | 46 | 15 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois Orange | Illinois Blue | 46 | 15 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 46 | 15 |
| Justine French | U[C]SD | Claremont | 46 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | Madmen and Specialists | 47 | 15 |
| Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru | Social credit go vroom | 47 | 15 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland | RIT | 47 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia Tech C | 48 | 15 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 48 | 15 |
| Will Alston | SGV Ventures | ALCU | 48 | 15 |
| Chris Yoo | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | In the Mood for Buzz | 49 | 15 |
| Omkar Marathe | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | The cult of SGA | 49 | 15 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick B | Bristol | 49 | 15 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | SIUE | 50 | 15 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | Purdue B | 51 | 15 |
| Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | North Carolina A | South Carolina | 52 | 15 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman | Missouri | 52 | 15 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton | Warwick C | 54 | 15 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Boston College B | 62 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF B | USF | 62 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia | Florida Tech | 62 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Anderson et al. | Jason et al. | 62 | 10 |
| Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Mississippi State | 63 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | bingy academy | Old and Young | 70 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech D | 73 | 10 |
| Owen Iredale | Imperial A | LSE B | 82 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | UF B | UF A | 91 | 10 |
| Jacob Rosenberg | Innovation Academy C | Innovation Academy B | 103 | 10 |
| Ted Gan | Penn State | Pitt | 109 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo Cloze | Carleton A | 109 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin C | Clark Wilson | 124 | 0 |