This book posits that geometricians determine properties from the construction of figures in a section on “What Philosophy Is.” The Foole’s claim that “there is no such thing as Justice” is rebutted by the claim that broken covenants lead to injustice in this book after the third of its 19 laws of nature is posed. According to this book, misinterpretation of scripture can drive a state to become a “Confederacy of Deceivers.” The fear of violent death is called summum malum in this book and cited as the reason humans form states in its first section, “Of Man.” This book characterizes the “state of nature” as a “war of all against all” that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” For 10 points, name this 1651 book that advocates for rule by an absolute sovereign, written by Thomas Hobbes. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 101.50 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.00 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 17% | 102.73 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.43 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.88 |
| North | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 93.50 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.80 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.60 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 80.40 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.40 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.00 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 86.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 101.50 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 84.00 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.25 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 102.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | McGill A | 49 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Carleton | 52 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley C | 54 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | Kenyon B | 54 | 10 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | George Washington B | 54 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Illinois B | 54 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Louisville A | 54 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Notre Dame C | 54 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Sewanee A | 54 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Rutgers B | 61 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Notre Dame A | 61 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Alberta | 61 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Iowa | 67 | -5 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | Virginia Tech B | 68 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 69 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | UCLA C | 71 | -5 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU D | 71 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins C | 71 | 10 |
| Vincent Zhang | Penn A | George Mason C | 71 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue A | Michigan D | 71 | 10 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Purdue C | 71 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | UTD A | 71 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | UAB A | 71 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Binghamton A | 71 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | UCO | 73 | 10 |
| Karthik Krishnamurthy | USC | Claremont Scripps | 74 | -5 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | LSE B | 74 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | Georgia Tech B | 75 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | Indiana B | 76 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Washington B | 76 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | MSU A | OSU A | 78 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern B | 78 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | Missouri A | 79 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | McGill B | 80 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University | Johns Hopkins B | 80 | -5 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia D | 80 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley F | 83 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCLA B | 83 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | Pitt C | 83 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Alabama B | 83 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Stanford C | Berkeley A | 89 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Chicago B | 91 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina A | Clemson B | 94 | 10 |
| Carter Yott | McMaster C | Waterloo | 95 | -5 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Chicago D | 95 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | Alberta B | 95 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 96 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's A | Guelph B | 97 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Maryland D | 97 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | Penn B | 97 | 10 |
| Max Kolda | Notre Dame E | Maryland C | 97 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rowan A | 97 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Alabama A | 97 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton B | 97 | -5 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Cornell-DII | 98 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Syracuse | 98 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Tennessee A | 99 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Georgetown B | 99 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Toronto G | 100 | -5 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Liberty B | 100 | 10 |
| Gavin Chen | Vassar A | Princeton A | 100 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU A | SIUE | 100 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Manchester B | 100 | 10 |
| Elliott Suarez | Berkeley B | Berkeley D | 102 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | UCI | 104 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Western Ontario | 104 | 10 |
| Sewanth Paudel | OSU D | MSU B | 104 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | UMBC A | 104 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 105 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | Kenyon A | 105 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Iowa State | 106 | 10 |
| John Chen | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 106 | -5 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech C | 106 | 10 |
| Nameer Qadir | Toronto D | Toronto C | 107 | 10 |
| Zaire Gibbons | Toronto J | Toronto E | 107 | 10 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | William Woods | 107 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU D | 107 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa | Guelph A | 109 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | North Carolina C | 109 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | Claremont Pitzer | 110 | 10 |
| Seth Allen | McMaster A | McMaster B | 110 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pitt B | CWRU C | 110 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | George Mason A | 110 | 10 |
| Will Hollister | Lehigh A | Lehigh B | 110 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | St. Thomas | 110 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | USC | 111 | 10 |
| Roman Bassett | UF A | ERAU A | 111 | 10 |
| Alexander Nichols | UCF A | UF B | 111 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Roanoke | 111 | 10 |
| Sophia Peng | Rutgers C | Columbia C | 111 | 10 |
| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | Minnesota C | 111 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Northwestern C | 111 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Cambridge A | 111 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | UF C | 113 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Nebraska | 113 | 10 |
| Aaron Velez | Yale B | Bowdoin A | 113 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Notre Dame B | 114 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | UTD B | 114 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech A | Virginia B | 115 | 10 |
| Doug Frederick | Auburn B | Huntsville B | 117 | 10 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | Melbourne A | 118 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | Melbourne B | 119 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Liberty C | 119 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | UCSC | 120 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | British Columbia A | British Columbia B | 129 | 10 |
| James Wadsley | McGill D | Arizona State B | 131 | 10 |
| Bailey Lacefield | Toronto I | Toronto F | 132 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dresios | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic University | 135 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Queen's B | 139 | 10 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | ERAU B | 139 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago C | 139 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Texas A | 139 | 10 |
| Shalin Zerbe | Binghamton B | Rochester | 139 | 10 |