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 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 87 | 10 |
| Justin Keung | Imperial A | Cambridge E | 87 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Cambridge B | 88 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Carleton | 89 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Florida A | UCF C | 89 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Cambridge D | 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 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago B | 100 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | NYU B | 100 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | Cornell B | Haverford A | 100 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 100 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty B | 102 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge C | 103 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | WashU B | 106 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont 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 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Minnesota B | 114 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | Florida State A | 114 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Tennessee A | 114 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UBC | 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 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago C | 145 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois C | 145 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | UNC D | Wake Forest | 145 | 0 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 145 | 0 |
| Ayan Guha | Georgia Tech A | Vanderbilt A | 145 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | Cornell C | 145 | 0 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | Binghamton A | 145 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Cornell D | 145 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT A | 145 | 0 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | RIT B | 145 | 0 |