A text by this person considers the “desperately slow” ascent of man and wonders at how long it would take for humanity to become as “charitably inclined” as Gotthold Lessing. This person told Kaiser Wilhelm II (“VIL-helm the second”) to ask the Ottoman sultan for “a Chartered Company – under German protection.” While working for the Neue Freie Presse (“NOY-uh FRY-uh PRESS-uh”), this person may have been heavily influenced by a scandal in the French Third Republic. This person chaired an 1897 congress where the Basel Program was adopted, and later proposed the Uganda Scheme. After being upset by the Dreyfus (“DRY-fuss”) Affair, this person proposed a solution to the title people’s “question” in an address to the Rothschilds. For 10 points, what author of The Jewish State founded modern political Zionism? ■END■
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 123.50 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 93.17 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.50 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 75% | 110.67 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 82.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 70% | 0% | 20% | 99.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 25% | 107.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Cornell B | 50 | -5 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Oxford A | 50 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Penn A | 70 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Illinois A | Illinois B | 75 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Missouri | 76 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | WashU B | 78 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 80 | -5 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern A | 82 | 10 |
| Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Cambridge C | 82 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC | UW B | 82 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Chicago A | 82 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 87 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Purdue | 88 | -5 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | MIT A | 88 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Imperial B | 89 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Brown A | 89 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 90 | -5 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Manchester | 90 | -5 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | UNC D | 90 | -5 |
| Ethan Siskel | Tufts A | Harvard B | 94 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | UMass Boston | 95 | 10 |
| Paritosh Purohit | Bristol | Southampton B | 100 | 10 |
| Samuel Kassover | George Washington B | Haverford B | 104 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn B | 111 | -5 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 114 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC B | 119 | -5 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | South Carolina | 120 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Cambridge A | 121 | -5 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Warwick A | 123 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago D | Illinois C | 123 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Durham | 124 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Liberty A | 124 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 125 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 125 | 10 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame B | 125 | 10 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Cambridge B | 125 | 0 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Cambridge E | 125 | 0 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Warwick B | 125 | 0 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 125 | 0 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 125 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Liberty B | 125 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue | Stanford B | 125 | 0 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW A | 125 | 0 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge A | LSE | 125 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Southampton A | 125 | 0 |
| Zayyan Mahmood | Southampton A | Oxford B | 125 | 0 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia B | Maryland B | 125 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar A | NYU B | 125 | 0 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | NYU A | 125 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Missoui S&T | 125 | 10 |