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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | MIT | 92 | -5 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Virginia | 92 | -5 |
| William Houston | Chicago B | Illinois C | 92 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 106 | -5 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell 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 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Brock | 107 | -5 |
| William Orr | Yale | Southern Connecticut State | 107 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Edinburgh B | 109 | -5 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Southampton B | 109 | -5 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto G | 109 | -5 |
| Alan Fan | Washington B | Washington A | 110 | -5 |
| Joseph Collins | Imperial B | UCL | 112 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton A | 112 | -5 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Bristol | 112 | -5 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State B | 116 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 116 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Imperial B | 125 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 125 | 10 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Penn State | 125 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | RIT | 125 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster B | 125 | 10 |
| Anna Barker | Central Florida C | Central Florida A | 125 | 10 |
| Jeremy Ryu | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 125 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 125 | 0 |
| Jerry Lin | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 125 | 10 |
| Isabel Dent | Sewanee | WashU B | 125 | 10 |