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 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Catholic University | 54 | 10 |
| Mason Evans | Tulsa | Ohio | 54 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern B | 68 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Manchester A | 68 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington A | 77 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | BC A | 77 | 10 |
| Misbah Meghani | UAB A | Auburn B | 77 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | OSU C | 84 | -5 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Brandeis Orlando | 84 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | British Columbia A | Washington B | 84 | 10 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn A | Georgia Tech B | 84 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA B | 84 | -5 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 84 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | James Madison | 84 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | VCU A | 84 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Clemson A | 91 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSB | 91 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 92 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Alberta | 95 | -5 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech D | 100 | -5 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCI | 100 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Columbia B | 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 |
| 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 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial A | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Huntsville B | 118 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | MSU B | 119 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Iowa State | 120 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech C | Alabama B | 121 | 10 |
| Lorie Au Yeung | UCSC | Stanford B | 121 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia C | 122 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 123 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 123 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford 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 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Columbia C | 125 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Notre Dame D | 125 | 10 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | George Washington B | 125 | 10 |
| Thomas Newill | Tufts A | Amherst B | 125 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | NC State | 127 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan D | 127 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Huntsville A | 129 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | Claremont Pitzer | 130 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | OSU A | 130 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Pitt B | 130 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | UTD A | 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 |
| Kyan van Beek | UF C | ERAU A | 130 | 10 |
| Jonathan Sung | Virginia B | Roanoke | 130 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Syracuse | 131 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington A | 132 | 10 |
| Adrian Dooley | Notre Dame B | UIC | 132 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | LSE B | 132 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | ERAU B | 133 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt B | 133 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Michigan B | 133 | 10 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 133 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 133 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Liberty C | 133 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland D | Penn B | 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 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | Liberty B | 134 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland B | 134 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Wisconsin | 134 | 10 |
| Jack Granahan | Brandeis Orlando | BU | 134 | 0 |
| Ryan Lee | Brown C | Amherst A | 134 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 134 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 134 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 134 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Lehigh B | 134 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Purdue C | 134 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Macalester A | 134 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Birmingham A | 134 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Southampton A | 134 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Oxford A | 134 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Harvard | 134 | 10 |
| Waverly O'Malley | Iowa | Rose State | 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 |