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 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 49 | -5 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | Harvard B | 49 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia | 92 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 92 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | MIT | 92 | -5 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton A | 92 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Illinois C | 92 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 92 | -5 |
| Connor Kahn | NC State A | VCU | 95 | -5 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA B | 97 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 97 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 99 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Ottawa | 99 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Cardiff | 99 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Central Florida B | 103 | 10 |
| Scott Sibley | UC Irvine | Arizona State | 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 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville 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 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 106 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 106 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Brandeis A | 106 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 106 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 106 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCSD C | 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 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Montpellier | 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 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton A | 112 | -5 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | UCL | 112 | -5 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 116 | -5 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State B | 116 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | North Carolina C | 116 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan | CWRU B | Michigan B | 119 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 119 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 125 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Carleton University | 125 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto F | 125 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | Toronto E | 125 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 125 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 125 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 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 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Yale | 125 | 10 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Missouri A | 125 | 10 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Washington B | 125 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Birmingham | 125 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Warwick A | 125 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 125 | 10 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Penn State | 125 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | RIT | 125 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 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 |
| Jeremy Ryu | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 125 | 0 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Minnesota A | 125 | 10 |
| Sushanth Balaraman | Texas A&M A | Texas A | 125 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Murray State A | 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 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | UCSD A | 125 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster B | 125 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Imperial B | 125 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 125 | 10 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Oxford B | 125 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | City St. George's | 125 | 0 |