This character suggests that God should recreate the world after positing the “principle of perpetual disappointment” as a “fundamental law of the Universe.” This character almost leaves behind a stack of comic books after going on a tirade in which he smashes a bottle of brandy and tears up an unfinished essay on global politics. This character claims that a copy of On the Origin of Species is safe because he put it in the library’s theology section. This author of “A World Without Collisions” declares himself an atheist after an older interlocutor suggests Jesus Christ as a “man of magnitude.” This character lets out his frustration about his alcoholic father returning from the hospital on Sam and Willie. For 10 points, an Athol Fugard play is titled for what character “…and the Boys”? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 109.40 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 109.83 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 115.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 109.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 100.20 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.75 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 44% | 117.14 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 130.00 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 121.60 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 36% | 99.56 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 104.00 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 110.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 25% | 110.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 36% | 114.60 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 125.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | George Mason B | 37 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 41 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brown B | 45 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Brown C | 48 | -5 |
| Harper Royal | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 51 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | OSU D | CWRU B | 53 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota A | 54 | -5 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Bristol A | 54 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Manchester B | 54 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Yale B | 54 | -5 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Ohio | 54 | -5 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Catholic University | 54 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Princeton A | 56 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana B | 60 | 10 |
| James Morgan | Oxford A | Imperial C | 61 | -5 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan B | Louisville B | 66 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Manchester A | 68 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 68 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 70 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Chicago D | 72 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn A | 75 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | BC A | 77 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Auburn B | 77 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 77 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | McGill D | 79 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | Claremont Scripps | 82 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA B | 84 | -5 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 84 | -5 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 84 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford C | 84 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley F | 84 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | VCU A | 84 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 84 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 84 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | OSU C | 84 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | James Madison | 84 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 85 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson B | 85 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Maryland C | 85 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Tusculum | 86 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | UCO | UTD B | 87 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Cambridge C | 88 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Minnesota C | 90 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSB | 91 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Clemson A | 91 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 92 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 95 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCI | 100 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 100 | -5 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 100 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | Johns Hopkins A | 100 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Columbia B | 100 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech D | 100 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Bowdoin B | 102 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | Melbourne A | 104 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Illinois B | 109 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Tennessee B | 109 | 10 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Wilson | 110 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | MIT B | 112 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton B | 113 | 10 |
| Samson Vickrey | Purdue C | Indiana A | 116 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 118 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial A | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason C | 118 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | MSU B | 119 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Iowa State | 120 | 10 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Stanford B | 121 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Alabama B | 121 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia C | 122 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 123 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 123 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 123 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 124 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern C | 124 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | MSU A | 124 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 124 | -5 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Amherst B | 125 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | George Washington B | 125 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 125 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 125 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan D | 127 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | NC State | 127 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Huntsville A | 129 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | Claremont Pitzer | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Chicago C | 130 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | St. Thomas | 130 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 130 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 130 | 10 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | ERAU A | 130 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU A | 130 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Pitt B | 130 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Roanoke | 130 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 131 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | LSE B | 132 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | UIC | 132 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington A | 132 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | ERAU B | 133 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 133 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Penn B | 133 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Michigan B | 133 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia B | 133 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt B | 133 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Liberty C | 133 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 133 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 134 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 134 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | Melbourne B | 134 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Macalester A | 134 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Wisconsin | 134 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | BU | 134 | 0 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Amherst A | 134 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Sewanee A | 134 | 0 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Mississippi State A | 134 | 0 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | UAB A | 134 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Birmingham A | 134 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Southampton A | 134 | 10 |
| Mia Liu | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 134 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 134 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Purdue C | 134 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Harvard | 134 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 134 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Rose State | 134 | 10 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | FSU | 134 | 0 |
| Eve Maramba | UF A | USF | 134 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | Kenyon A | 134 | 0 |
| Ian Koeninger | Kenyon A | CWRU C | 134 | 0 |
| Mohit Nair | CWRU D | Kenyon B | 134 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | North Carolina B | 134 | 0 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | Liberty B | 134 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland B | 134 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Oxford A | 134 | 0 |