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 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCSD A | 56 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Notre Dame A | 56 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Columbia B | 57 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western A | 57 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | CWRU A | 58 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 60 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 63 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 63 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Montpellier | 63 | 10 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | McMaster B | 63 | -5 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Claremont | 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 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State 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 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Queen's | 82 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Imperial A | 86 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UC Irvine | 86 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UCSD C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Southampton B | 114 | 10 |
| Brandon Weiss | Columbia C | Johns Hopkins A | 114 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | McGill A | 114 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida C | 114 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 114 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Louisville B | 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 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western B | 116 | 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 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee B | 117 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Rochester | 117 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Georgia Tech D | 117 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Maryland C | 117 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Toronto D | 117 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 117 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 117 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Alabama B | 118 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | UBC B | 119 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Vassar | 119 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto G | 119 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Guelph | 119 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | NC State A | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee | 120 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Northwestern D | 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 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 135 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | UBC A | 135 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 135 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 135 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Iowa State | 135 | 10 |