Question

Stanisław Lem wrote a short story collection titled “Fables for [these characters].” In one work, Busman is electrocuted while trying to bribe these characters into giving up control of the ship Ultimus. That play ends with Alquist calling two of these (10[1])characters (10[1])Adam and Eve. (10[1])In that play, Helena Glory of the Humanity League burns the formula used to create these characters, (10[1])before they storm the factory (-5[1])where the title character’s firm produces them. (10[1])These characters are governed by “three laws” (10[1])in (10[1])Isaac (10[1])Asimov stories. For 10 points, invented by Rossum in the play R.U.R., what type of (10[1])artificial beings are known by a term coined by Karel Çapek ■END■

ANSWER: robots [accept equivalents like cyborgs or androids or automata; prompt on inanimate answers like machines or devices]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Noah McRedmondNotre Dame BPurdue C4010
Trenton BurgessIndianaNorthwestern A4110
Azura GollamudiNorthwestern BSIUE4410
Maya KvaratskheliaNotre Dame AChicago B6110
Nitin MurthyPurdue AChicago A66-5
Owen AshbrookIowa BIllinois B7310
Sophie LymanWashU AIllinois D8010
Brielle RachIowa AIllinois C8110
Christopher JosephNotre Dame CIllinois A8210
Sam KonkelChicago APurdue A9710

Summary

2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%0%80.67
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY9100%0%0%71.56
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY7100%0%0%66.86
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY14100%0%14%76.14
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY9100%0%0%64.89
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY1100%0%0%44.00
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY7100%0%0%62.86
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%11%66.56