Description required. This fictional object is compared to an author’s broken engagement in “The Swords Are Approaching,” an essay by the author of Love and Garbage, Ivan Klíma. After fiddling with this object, a character tries to wash his hands in dirty water, then sand, causing him to drop two women’s handkerchiefs. A servant who earlier had rejected a whipping grabs at the gear wheels that begin to pour out of this object. This device’s operator complains of a squeaky wheel and torn straps to a traveler viewing this device, who is urged to recommend its utility to a new Commandant. This device, which is made up of the Bed, the Inscriber, and the Harrow, kills an Officer obsessed with it instead of writing the words “BE JUST.” For 10 points, identify this punitive device from a Franz Kafka story set at a prison camp. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.33 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 117.50 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 101.17 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 101.50 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 126.25 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 129.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 129.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 10% | 109.38 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 117.43 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Missoui S&T | 51 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley B | 75 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri | Chicago D | 80 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois B | 80 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Rutgers A | 83 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge E | 87 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 87 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 88 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge D | 89 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF C | 89 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Carleton | 89 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard A | 89 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard B | 89 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 94 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech C | 96 | -5 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Haverford A | 100 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 100 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago B | 100 | -5 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 100 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 102 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge C | 103 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont B | 106 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WashU B | 106 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Southampton A | 109 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | UNC C | 111 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 113 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 114 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Minnesota B | 114 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 114 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 114 | 10 |
| Hannah Nieuwveld | Penn A | Penn B | 121 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Bristol | 126 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge A | 127 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick A | Durham | 127 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | Brandeis B | 127 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 133 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Haverford B | 134 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland A | 139 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 140 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty C | 144 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Dartmouth A | 144 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Imperial B | 145 | 0 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Oxford B | 145 | 10 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Vassar A | 145 | 10 |
| Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Maryland B | 145 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | George Washington B | 145 | 0 |
| Sam Kung | UNC D | Wake Forest | 145 | 0 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 145 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 145 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 145 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT A | 145 | 0 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT B | 145 | 0 |
| Nithin Mendu | Wisconsin A | Wisconsin B | 145 | 0 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | UMass Boston | 145 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UW A | 145 | 0 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UW B | 145 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 145 | 0 |
| Ayan Guha | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 145 | 0 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 145 | 0 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 145 | 0 |