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 |
| Shlok Dev | LSE B | Bristol A | 54 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Manchester B | 54 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Catholic University | 54 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota A | 54 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | Washington 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 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA B | 84 | -5 |
| Matthew Lam | OSU A | OSU C | 84 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | James Madison | 84 | -5 |
| Sayan Chandaroy | UMBC A | VCU A | 84 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham A | Sheffield B | 84 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Warwick B | 100 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 100 | -5 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Georgia Tech D | 100 | -5 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | Bowdoin B | 102 | -5 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | Melbourne A | 104 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Tennessee B | 109 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Illinois 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 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason C | 118 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Bowdoin A | 118 | 10 |
| James Wong | Cambridge B | Imperial 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 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 123 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Edinburgh A | 123 | 10 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Rochester | 123 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | MSU A | 124 | 10 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | Virginia Tech B | 124 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern C | 124 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Arizona State B | 124 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster A | Bristol B | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Chicago C | 130 | 10 |
| Dylan Lewis | Nebraska | St. Thomas | 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 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol A | LSE B | 132 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Washington A | 132 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | ERAU B | 133 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Liberty 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 |
| Rufus Gladwell | Durham B | Sheffield C | 133 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | ESF | 133 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt B | 133 | 10 |
| Mia Liu | Berkeley F | Berkeley C | 134 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 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 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison | North Carolina B | 134 | 0 |
| Fuller Wray | Virginia Tech B | Liberty B | 134 | 10 |
| John Shelly | Rowan A | Lehigh 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 |
| 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 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Southampton A | 134 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 134 | 10 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland B | 134 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Purdue C | 134 | 10 |
| Phillip Jordan | Imperial C | Oxford A | 134 | 0 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Macalester A | 134 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Harvard | 134 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Tulsa | 134 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield B | Birmingham A | 134 | 10 |