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 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 44 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Purdue A | 44 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 44 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 44 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago A | 44 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Oxford A | 46 | 10 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 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 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rochester | 60 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 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 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 92 | 10 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Illinois C | 92 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton A | 92 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia | 92 | -5 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | MIT | 92 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville A | 106 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 106 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 106 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Montpellier | 106 | -5 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Warwick B | 106 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 106 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 106 | -5 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 106 | -5 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 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 |
| 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 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Oxford C | 124 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth B | 124 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | UCSD A | 125 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster B | 125 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | Toronto E | 125 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 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 |
| Max Bendsen | VCU | NC State A | 125 | 0 |
| Justine Hopkins | Liberty C | Virginia Tech B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Oxford B | 125 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | City St. George's | 125 | 0 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Penn State | 125 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | RIT | 125 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto C | 125 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Carleton University | 125 | 10 |
| Eva Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto F | 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 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Imperial B | 125 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 125 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton 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 |
| 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 |