Either/Or - 2024 PLAYTIME - Buzzpoints App

Question

This book cites Spinoza in saying that “I am continually aeterno modo” in the middle of its opening “Diapsalmata” section. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this book compiled by the fictional “Victor Eremita.” The fictional authors Judge Wilhelm and the anonymous “A” wrote sections of this book portraying the two differing life views of the aesthetic and the ethical.

ANSWER: Either/Or [or Enten - Eller]

[10e] Either/Or was actually written by this Danish Christian existentialist philosopher who said “truth is subjectivity” and wrote Fear and Trembling.

ANSWER: Søren Kierkegaard [or Søren Aabye Kierkegaard]

[10h] Kierkegaard’s master’s thesis is an analysis of this concept with Continual Reference to an ancient thinker, arguing, in part two, that this concept is “infinite absolute negativity.”

ANSWER: irony [accept Socratic irony]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	26.67	100%	67%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Michigan A	Michigan D	10	10	10	30
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Oberlin	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Ohio State D	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State C	0	10	0	10
Caltech	UCSD	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
Art of Premature Signaling	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	girl 15 whale i mean they	10	10	0	20
UCSB	P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	10	10	0	20
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	10	30
Billy's Bastion	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	0	10	0	10
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Too much from you lately	10	10	0	20
Belmont	RIT	0	10	0	10
Brown	Brandeis	10	10	0	20
Lexington	Harvard	10	10	10	30
MIT	BU	10	10	0	20
George Mason B	George Washington	10	10	0	20
Haverford A	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Haverford B	Catholic University of America	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins B	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Rutgers	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Carleton	SD Mines	0	10	0	10
Arizona State University B	UW B	0	10	0	10
mongeese	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	0	10	0	10
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	10	0	10
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Quatumvirate	10	10	0	20
evil women enjoyers	Goober Gang	10	10	0	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	we need new names	10	10	10	30
2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	0	10
MSJ	Gruh	0	10	0	10
Free Agents 1	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Mahjonng Masters	Auburn 2026	10	10	0	20
Washington Connections	Alberta	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Cambridge	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Manchester	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Lancaster	0	10	0	10
Sheffield C	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Sheffield B	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Warwick C	0	10	0	10
Arizona State University A	UW A	10	10	0	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	10	30
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Missouri	WashU Bulbasaur	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	WashU Charmander	0	10	0	10