Note to players: Author and type of work required. In one of these works, its author establishes presumption as a disease and claims that despite being “the most wretched and frail of all creatures,” man is the proudest. This author describes the importance of reason over hearsay by recounting Pyrrhus of Epirus’s invasion of Italy in one of these works that claims it is customary to refer to other cultures as “barbarous.” In one of these works, the author wrote about a Brazilian tribe’s practice of (*) roasting and eating prisoners. The author of one of these works espouses skepticism by embracing the maxim “what do I know?” “Of Cannibals” is included in a collection of these works by this author whose name is borrowed from his language’s word for “attempt” or “try.” For 10 points, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond” is a work in what literary genre by a French author? ■END■
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | N | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 108.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | N | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 89.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 71.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 33% | 0% | 82.40 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 71.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 89.33 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 50% | 125.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 88.33 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 71.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 71 | 15 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | NYU A | 71 | 15 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | Rutgers | 71 | 15 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 71 | 15 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto B | Toronto C | 71 | 15 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Missouri | 75 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW A | 76 | 15 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | WashU Charmander | 76 | 15 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Iowa State | 86 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Truman State | 86 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Billy's Bastion | 86 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge | 86 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | Art of Premature Signaling | 89 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Haverford B | 89 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University B | 89 | -5 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Illinois B | 89 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 95 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Sheffield A | 95 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | George Washington | 108 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 108 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Birmingham | 116 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 150 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | South Dakota School of Mines | 151 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Alberta | 151 | 0 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 151 | 0 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 151 | 0 |
| Elliot Earley | Sheffield C | Edinburgh | 151 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Lancaster | 151 | 0 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 151 | 0 |
| Gavin Wagner | WashU Squirtle | Illinois C | 151 | 0 |