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 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Florida B | 37 | -5 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Central Florida A | 37 | 0 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Georgetown | 50 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Louisville A | 50 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Berkeley D | 51 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Notre Dame A | 56 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCSD 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 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Claremont | 63 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 63 | 10 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | McMaster B | 63 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 63 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial C | 71 | 10 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Illinois A | 71 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU B | 82 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | VCU | 82 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol | Cambridge C | 82 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Queen's | 82 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford C | 82 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 82 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Georgia Tech A | 86 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Imperial A | 86 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UCSD C | 86 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | McMaster A | 86 | -5 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UC Irvine | 86 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Indiana B | 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 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Birmingham | 114 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | McGill A | 114 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida C | 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 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 114 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton B | 114 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | Arizona State | 114 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 114 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 114 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Louisville B | 114 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western B | 116 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 117 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee B | 117 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Toronto D | 117 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Maryland C | 117 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Rochester | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 117 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Duke | 117 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison A | North Carolina B | 117 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 117 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Georgia Tech D | 117 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Alabama B | 118 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto G | 119 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Guelph | 119 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | UBC B | 119 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Vassar | 119 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Northwestern D | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | NC State A | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee | 120 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Wake Forest | 126 | 10 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida A | 126 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Indiana C | 128 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham | UCL | 130 | 10 |
| Becca Wu | James Madison B | North Carolina C | 131 | 10 |
| Thomas Watkins | South Carolina A | Liberty C | 131 | 10 |
| Mia Clark-Webb | Oxford C | Warwick A | 134 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Iowa State | 135 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 135 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | UBC A | 135 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 135 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 135 | 10 |