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 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 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 |
| 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 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Georgia Tech A | 73 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech D | 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 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Illinois C | 92 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | MIT | 92 | -5 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 92 | -5 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton A | 92 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Ottawa | 99 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 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 |
| Scott Sibley | UC Irvine | Arizona State | 103 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Central Florida B | 103 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Missouri B | 103 | -5 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | UBC B | 105 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Carleton College | 105 | -5 |
| Sumukh Murthy | UCSD A | UCSD C | 106 | -5 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's | Western B | 106 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill B | Western A | 106 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto D | 106 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 106 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 106 | -5 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 106 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Brandeis A | 106 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville A | 106 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 106 | -5 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 106 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Montpellier | 106 | -5 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Warwick B | 106 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 106 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 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 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | UCL | 112 | -5 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Bristol | 112 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | UCSD A | 125 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Carleton University | 125 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 125 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | Toronto E | 125 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto F | 125 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster B | 125 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 125 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 125 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 125 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 125 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia | Liberty A | 125 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 125 | 10 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | Virginia Tech B | 125 | 10 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | NC State A | 125 | 0 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | North Carolina A | 125 | 10 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Chicago C | 125 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago D | 125 | 10 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Northwestern D | 125 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Indiana A | 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 |
| Beck Faletti | Washington A | Washington B | 125 | 10 |
| Safiya Hasan | Missouri B | Missouri A | 125 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Murray State A | 125 | 10 |
| Sushanth Balaraman | Texas A&M A | Texas A | 125 | 10 |
| Isabel Dent | Sewanee | WashU B | 125 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 125 | 0 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 125 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Birmingham | 125 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | City St. George's | 125 | 0 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Imperial B | 125 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 125 | 10 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Oxford B | 125 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Warwick A | 125 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 125 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | RIT | 125 | 10 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Penn State | 125 | 10 |