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 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Catholic University | 54 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Stanford C | 84 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley F | 84 | -5 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 84 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA B | 84 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | VCU A | 84 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 84 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 84 | -5 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | OSU C | 84 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | James Madison | 84 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 84 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 85 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | Maryland C | 85 | 10 |
| Jackson Slaughter | Tennessee A | Clemson B | 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 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 100 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCI | 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 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 100 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason C | 118 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 118 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial A | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Bowdoin A | 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 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 123 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 123 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 123 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | MSU A | 124 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 124 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 124 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern C | 124 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 125 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | George Washington B | 125 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 125 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Amherst B | 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 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | ERAU A | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Chicago C | 130 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | St. Thomas | 130 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | Claremont Pitzer | 130 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 130 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 131 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | UIC | 132 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington A | 132 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | LSE B | 132 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | ERAU B | 133 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Michigan B | 133 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 133 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Penn B | 133 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt B | 133 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 133 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Liberty C | 133 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia B | 133 | 10 |
| Mia Liu | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 134 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | Melbourne B | 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 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Purdue C | 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 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Oxford A | 134 | 0 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 134 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 134 | 10 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | Liberty B | 134 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland B | 134 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 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 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | North Carolina B | 134 | 0 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Harvard | 134 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 134 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Rose State | 134 | 10 |