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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Florida B | 37 | -5 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Central Florida A | 37 | 0 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Ottawa | 37 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Claremont | 63 | 10 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | McMaster B | 63 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 63 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Montpellier | 63 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 63 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | VCU | 82 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford C | 82 | -5 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol | Cambridge C | 82 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Queen's | 82 | 10 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU B | 82 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 82 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Georgia Tech 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 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Imperial A | 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 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Cornell A | 109 | 0 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial B | 109 | 10 |
| Julian Bushlow | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 110 | 0 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Western C | 111 | 10 |
| Alex Wong | Rutgers A | NYU C | 113 | 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 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Birmingham | 114 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | McGill A | 114 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western B | 116 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Duke | 117 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 117 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Maryland C | 117 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Rochester | 117 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Toronto D | 117 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 117 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee B | 117 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Georgia Tech D | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 117 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison A | North Carolina B | 117 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Alabama B | 118 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Vassar | 119 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto G | 119 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Guelph | 119 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | UBC B | 119 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Northwestern D | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Cope | Georgia Tech C | Sewanee | 120 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | NC State A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 135 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 135 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | UBC A | 135 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 135 | 10 |