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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | McMaster B | 63 | -5 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Montpellier | 63 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 63 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh A | 63 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | VCU | 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 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol | Cambridge C | 82 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford C | 82 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Zach Foster | City St. George's | Imperial A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Birmingham | 114 | 10 |
| Patrick Hartley | Warwick B | Southampton B | 114 | 10 |
| Brandon Weiss | Columbia C | Johns Hopkins A | 114 | 10 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida C | 114 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 114 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Western B | 116 | 10 |
| Sicheng Jiang | Toronto F | Toronto D | 117 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 117 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Georgia Tech D | 117 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Maryland C | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 117 | 10 |
| Alex Thomas | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee B | 117 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Rochester | 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 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Alabama B | 118 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto G | 119 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton University | Guelph | 119 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Vassar | 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 |
| 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 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Toronto B | 135 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell A | Binghamton A | 135 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | UBC A | 135 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 135 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | Iowa State | 135 | 10 |