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 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago A | 44 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 44 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Purdue A | 44 | 10 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 44 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 97 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD B | UCLA B | 97 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Cardiff | 99 | -5 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 99 | 10 |
| Galen Mueller | McGill A | Ottawa | 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 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 106 | -5 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Louisville A | 106 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 106 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Montpellier | 106 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell 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 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 106 | -5 |
| Tok Shing Henry Wong | Cambridge C | Warwick B | 106 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 106 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ollie Glin-Conway | Imperial C | Oxford C | 124 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Dartmouth B | 124 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | UCSD 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 |
| 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 |
| Rick Line | Cardiff | Oxford B | 125 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | City St. George's | 125 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Jeremy Ryu | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 125 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 125 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Larkin | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 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 |
| Nathaniel Godfrey | Toronto G | Toronto E | 125 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 125 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 125 | 0 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Penn State | 125 | 10 |
| Kieran Freed | Rochester | RIT | 125 | 10 |