One thinker forged a letter from Plutarch to Trajan to argue for the identification between the state and these objects. Princes, nobles, and common people are compared to the three components of these objects in a treatise Christine de Pizan wrote for Duke Louis of Guyenne’s education. They're not trees, but Cicero defended tyrannicide in De Officiis by comparing tyrants to damaged parts of these objects, influencing a similar argument by John of Salisbury. The belief that English (*) monarchs had both a natural and spiritual one of these objects is described in an Ernst Kantorowicz (“can-TORE-o-vich”) work titled The King's Two [of these objects]. A metaphor comparing the state to one of these objects is illustrated at the top of the frontispiece of Leviathan, where one of these objects is formed by a crowd of people. For 10 points, metaphors of a ■END■
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 110.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.67 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.80 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 109.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 91.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 111.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Bentley | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | BHSU ReFantazio | 54 | 15 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Notre Dame | 65 | 15 |
| Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 66 | -5 |
| Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 73 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 78 | 10 |
| Doug Simons | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 84 | 10 |
| Jeremy Cummings | WashU | hawk two of | 85 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 88 | 10 |
| Taylor Harvey | Cry of the Common Loon | Stanford+ | 88 | 10 |
| Michael Coates | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 88 | 10 |
| Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Import Pandas | 91 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Hu up Jinning they Tao | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 92 | 10 |
| Will Alston | Walston et. al. | Cope is the thing with feathers | 92 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | Thompson et al. | 92 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | Simple Vibes | 94 | 10 |
| Claire Jones | Defying Suavity | Limp Franceskit | 94 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Northeast by Northwestern | 95 | 10 |
| Andrew Hart | BHSU Rebirth | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 95 | 10 |
| JinAh Kim | Banned from ARGOS | |madam| | 98 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 98 | 10 |
| Jason Rohfritsch | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 104 | 10 |
| Joseph Krol | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Cambridge | 112 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | just one more half-dot bro | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 113 | -5 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 120 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Clown Squad | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 122 | -5 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | UBC | 122 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 147 | 10 |
| Hazel Depreist-Sullivan | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | just one more half-dot bro | 152 | 10 |
| William Houston | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Squad | 154 | 10 |
| Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 154 | 10 |
| Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 154 | 10 |