Description acceptable. Henry Alford’s New Yorker article “Ink” documented dictionary words used for this purpose like “esquivalience.” The discovery of phone listings used for this purpose led to the 1991 case Feist v. Rural, which rejected the “sweat of the brow” doctrine for facts. A rural mailbox photographer in the Columbia Encyclopedia created for this purpose named Lillian Mountweazel now names entities created for this purpose. The title of a John Green novel was inspired by a place created for this purpose supposedly in upstate New York, which Rand McNally insisted became real upon the opening of a general store in Agloe. For 10 points, “trap streets” and “paper towns” are fake entries used by reference works for what purpose of detecting intellectual property violations? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 79.33 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 93.80 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 81.92 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 0% | 115.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 61.67 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 40% | 88.57 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 74.82 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 81.40 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 75.67 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 80% | 107.33 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 42% | 85.18 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 89.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 63% | 98.88 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 75.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | McMaster A | 16 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland C | NYU A | 16 | 10 |
| Lucas Guan | Brown B | BC A | 16 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern B | Northwestern C | 16 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland D | Georgetown B | 18 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | BC B | 18 | -5 |
| August Szpak | CWRU C | CWRU D | 21 | 10 |
| Ella Mankowski | Pitt C | MSU B | 21 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | Alberta B | 25 | 10 |
| Scarlet Rutter | Claremont Scripps | UCLA D | 29 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Catholic University | 29 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty A | 30 | 10 |
| Xavier Bornhorst | Maryland B | George Washington B | 31 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 34 | -5 |
| Matthew Wang | British Columbia D | Alberta | 34 | 10 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley E | Berkeley D | 43 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Pitt A | 43 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 43 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia B | Columbia C | 45 | 10 |
| Alexander Wong | Rutgers B | Rowan A | 47 | 10 |
| Aidan Keenan | Rochester | Binghamton B | 47 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | Toronto G | 51 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason B | 56 | 10 |
| Kevin Herro | George Washington A | NYU B | 58 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill C | 59 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU B | 60 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Guelph B | 61 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCI | 65 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McGill A | 65 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | BU | 65 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia A | Rutgers C | 70 | -5 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Carleton | 71 | -5 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota B | 71 | -5 |
| Derek Kuldinow | Stanford B | Berkeley A | 72 | 10 |
| Sam Kung | North Carolina C | South Carolina B | 72 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | VCU A | 72 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Nebraska | 72 | 10 |
| Rajiv Pujara | Dartmouth | Amherst A | 72 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia A | 72 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton A | 72 | 10 |
| Mohammad Khan | UTD A | Tulsa | 73 | -5 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Brandeis Orlando | 74 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Texas B | 74 | -5 |
| Sean Yang | Waterloo | Queen's B | 77 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Yale A | 77 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 78 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA A | 78 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto Metropolitan | 78 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | CWRU B | 78 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | North Carolina B | 78 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Penn A | 78 | -5 |
| Suren Grigorian | Berkeley F | UCSC | 81 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 81 | -5 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Toronto J | 81 | -5 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | OSU D | 81 | -5 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | James Madison | 81 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 81 | -5 |
| Walter Carson | NC State | Tennessee B | 81 | -5 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | WashU A | 81 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | WashU C | 81 | -5 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis Wilson | Brandeis Lloyd George | 81 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | Washington A | 81 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | OSU C | 82 | 10 |
| Joyann Hua | British Columbia C | Washington B | 82 | -5 |
| Dominik Polley | Carleton | St. Thomas | 84 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford C | 86 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | UCF A | UF A | 86 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Swarthmore A | 86 | -5 |
| Alex Mayernick | Lehigh A | Princeton A | 86 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | SIUE | 86 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Harvard | 86 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | MIT B | 86 | -5 |
| Megan Wang | Brown A | Cornell-UG | 86 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | UTD B | 87 | -5 |
| Luke Houtz | Arizona State B | Texas A | 88 | -5 |
| Dixie Lumsden | Roanoke | Tusculum | 89 | -5 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Macalester B | 89 | -5 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA C | 92 | -5 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Bowdoin A | 98 | -5 |
| Cranmer McGinn | McMaster C | McGill B | 100 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Toronto K | 101 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | UMBC A | 104 | 10 |
| Christopher Jenkins | UCF B | UF B | 106 | 10 |
| Yash Tiwari | Minnesota A | Minnesota C | 108 | -5 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Toronto I | 112 | -5 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Tennessee A | 112 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Iowa | 115 | -5 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Syracuse | 119 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | Liberty C | 121 | -5 |
| Kevin Cronk | Virginia Tech B | Virginia B | 122 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | Georgetown A | 123 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | George Washington A | 124 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 125 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | USC | 125 | 10 |
| Jas Wang | UCLA A | UCLA B | 125 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | Claremont Pitzer | 125 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Guelph A | 125 | 10 |
| James Fan | Toronto J | Toronto C | 125 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | Western Ontario | 125 | 10 |
| Christophe Savoie | UF C | FSU | 125 | 10 |
| Sierra Cerna | ERAU B | Melbourne A | 125 | 0 |
| Pallas Allen | USF | UF D | 125 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | FIU | 125 | 10 |
| Niru Shakya | Melbourne A | ERAU B | 125 | 0 |
| Yishak Kelkay | ERAU A | Melbourne B | 125 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | Kenyon B | 125 | 0 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Pitt B | 125 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | MSU A | 125 | 0 |
| Danny Tran | Tennessee B | NC State | 125 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Liberty B | 125 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine | Penn B | Johns Hopkins B | 125 | 10 |
| Jarman Taylor | Johns Hopkins C | George Mason C | 125 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Columbia A | 125 | 0 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Vassar A | 125 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Missouri A | 125 | 0 |
| Liam Buck | St. Thomas | Carleton | 125 | 10 |
| Cossette Anderson | Minnesota C | Minnesota A | 125 | 0 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Wisconsin | 125 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | MIT A | 125 | 10 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | Brown C | 125 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell-UG | Brown A | 125 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | Tufts B | 125 | 10 |
| Ethan Erickson | BC B | Yale B | 125 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia B | 125 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Washington B | British Columbia C | 125 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Arizona State B | 125 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Ohio | 125 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | McGill D | 125 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Northwestern A | 125 | 10 |
| Mitchell Hacket | UCO | Rose State | 125 | 10 |
| Jarrod Curl | Tulsa | UTD A | 125 | 10 |