A collection of these objects excavated in Iran was named in a lawsuit by survivors of a bombing in Jerusalem demanding that the University of Chicago sell them. Otto Neugebauer and Abraham Sachs evaluated the mathematical significance of one of these objects called Plimpton 322. A man named Azi produced these objects for a site excavated by Paolo Matthiae at Ebla. Children were trained to create these objects at places called eduba. Austen Henry Layard and Hormuzd Rassam discovered two collections of these objects that were brought to the British Museum from Mosul. A fire during the destruction of Nineveh preserved a massive collection of these objects established by Ashurbanipal. For 10 points, what kind of objects recorded Sumerian texts like the Epic of Gilgamesh? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 92.25 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 45% | 111.73 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 109.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 103.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 44% | 115.13 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 101.63 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 33% | 89.60 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 112.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 125.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 38% | 97.43 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 50% | 96.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 120.25 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge B | 27 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 44 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago A | 44 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Purdue A | 44 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 44 | 10 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 44 | 10 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 46 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Oxford A | 46 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan C | 47 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Harvard B | 49 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 49 | -5 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Northwestern C | 54 | -5 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 54 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 60 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rochester | 60 | -5 |
| Jay Misuk | Western C | UBC A | 63 | 10 |
| William Edwards | Tennessee A | Bruin | 68 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | Manchester | 70 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago E | Notre Dame A | 71 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech D | 73 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Georgia Tech A | 73 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 77 | -5 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Tennessee B | 83 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 91 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 92 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Illinois C | 92 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton A | 92 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | MIT | 92 | -5 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 92 | -5 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia | 92 | -5 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | VCU | 95 | -5 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 97 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA B | 97 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Ottawa | 99 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Cardiff | 99 | -5 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 99 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida A | 100 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Louisville B | 102 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Missouri B | 103 | -5 |
| Scott Sibley | UC Irvine | Arizona State | 103 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Central Florida B | 103 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | UBC B | 105 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Carleton College | 105 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 106 | -5 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 106 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville A | 106 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 106 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Montpellier | 106 | -5 |
| Ella Tang | McGill B | Western A | 106 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto D | 106 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's | Western B | 106 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 106 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Brandeis A | 106 | 10 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Warwick B | 106 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 106 | -5 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 106 | 10 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCSD C | 106 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 106 | -5 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Brock | 107 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Southern Connecticut State | 107 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto G | 109 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Edinburgh B | 109 | -5 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Southampton B | 109 | -5 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Washington A | 110 | -5 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Bristol | 112 | -5 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | UCL | 112 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton A | 112 | -5 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 116 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | North Carolina C | 116 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State B | 116 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 119 | -5 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan B | 119 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Michigan State | 122 | -5 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississipi State | Vanderbilt B | 123 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth B | 124 | 10 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Oxford C | 124 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | Toronto E | 125 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 125 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | NC State A | 125 | 0 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | Virginia Tech B | 125 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago D | 125 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Indiana A | 125 | 10 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Northwestern D | 125 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Chicago C | 125 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 125 | 0 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 125 | 10 |
| Isabel Dent | Sewanee | WashU B | 125 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Birmingham | 125 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Warwick A | 125 | 0 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Imperial B | 125 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 125 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 125 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Carleton University | 125 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto F | 125 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster B | 125 | 10 |
| Jeremy Ryu | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 125 | 0 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Yale | 125 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Minnesota A | 125 | 10 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Missouri A | 125 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Washington B | 125 | 10 |
| Sushanth Balaraman | Texas A&M A | Texas A | 125 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Murray State A | 125 | 10 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Oxford B | 125 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | City St. George's | 125 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 125 | 10 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Penn State | 125 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | RIT | 125 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | UCSD A | 125 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 125 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 125 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 125 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia | Liberty A | 125 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 125 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | North Carolina A | 125 | 10 |