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 |
| 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 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Claremont | 63 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Montpellier | 63 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 63 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 63 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago E | 65 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Stanford A | 66 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Swarthmore | 67 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | William and Mary | 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 |
| Thomas Jenkins | Michigan C | CWRU B | 82 | 10 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 82 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford C | 82 | -5 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo A | Queen's | 82 | 10 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | VCU | 82 | 10 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol | Cambridge C | 82 | 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 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UCSD C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | Arizona State | 114 | 10 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt B | 114 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Louisville B | 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 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | McGill A | 114 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 114 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Birmingham | 114 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western B | 116 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Toronto D | 117 | 10 |
| Erin Williams | James Madison A | North Carolina B | 117 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Georgia Tech D | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 117 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Maryland C | 117 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Rochester | 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 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Iowa State | 135 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 135 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 135 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | UBC A | 135 | 10 |