To address a problem often named for this kind of object, James Ross argues that it fails to consider a possible “state of affairs,” while Alvin Plantinga considers a being called “McEar” who can only scratch his ear. A passage involving one of these objects in a biography by James Boswell names a logical fallacy of claiming an argument is absurd without further reasoning. Thomas Aquinas used logical impossibility for a solution to a paradox named for these objects that concerned God’s omnipotence. A work of existentialism claims that pauses between a man’s use of one of these objects makes him “superior to his fate” and that, during his pauses, we must “imagine him happy.” For 10 points, an Albert Camus work described the absurdity of Sisyphus pushing what kind of object up a mountain? ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 59.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 85.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 108.17 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 120.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 94.80 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.78 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 90.75 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 97.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 115.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.14 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 8% | 95.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.88 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 113.75 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Ottawa | 37 | -5 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Central Florida A | 37 | 0 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Florida B | 37 | -5 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Louisville A | 50 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Georgetown | 50 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley D | 51 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCSD A | 56 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Notre Dame A | 56 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western A | 57 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Columbia B | 57 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU A | 58 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 60 | 10 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | McMaster B | 63 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 63 | -5 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Claremont | 63 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 63 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Montpellier | 63 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago E | 65 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 66 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | William and Mary | 67 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Swarthmore | 67 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | Missouri A | 68 | -5 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Illinois A | 71 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial C | 71 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | McGill B | 74 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Northwestern C | 77 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | Chicago D | Illinois C | 77 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 78 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Queen's | 82 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 82 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU B | 82 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | VCU | 82 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol | Cambridge C | 82 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford C | 82 | -5 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UCSD C | 86 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UC Irvine | 86 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | McMaster A | 86 | -5 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Indiana B | 86 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Georgia Tech A | 86 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Imperial A | 86 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | Liberty A | 88 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell B | 89 | 10 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Edinburgh B | 100 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Minnesota A | 104 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial B | 109 | 10 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 109 | 0 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 110 | 0 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Western C | 111 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers A | NYU C | 113 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | Arizona State | 114 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | McGill A | 114 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida C | 114 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 114 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Louisville B | 114 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 114 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Birmingham | 114 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Southampton B | 114 | 10 |
| Brandon Weiss | Columbia C | Johns Hopkins A | 114 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Johns Hopkins B | 114 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton B | 114 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 114 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western B | 116 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Toronto D | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 117 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison A | North Carolina B | 117 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Duke | 117 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 117 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 117 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Georgia Tech D | 117 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee B | 117 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Maryland C | 117 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Rochester | 117 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Alabama B | 118 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Guelph | 119 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | UBC B | 119 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto G | 119 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Vassar | 119 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | NC State A | 120 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Northwestern D | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee | 120 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida A | 126 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Wake Forest | 126 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana C | 128 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham | UCL | 130 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Liberty C | 131 | 10 |
| Becca Wu | James Madison B | North Carolina C | 131 | 10 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford C | Warwick A | 134 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 135 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | UBC A | 135 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 135 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Iowa State | 135 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 135 | 10 |