This thinker imagined Alexander the Great’s soul to illustrate both a “complete individual concept” and the “doctrine of marks and traces.” This thinker used Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon to illustrate a theory of truth where predicates are contained within concepts. This thinker argued that only necessary truths are grounded on Aristotle’s principle of non-contradiction, while contingent truths are grounded in what this thinker called the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Before his death in 1716, this thinker argued that the only beings were “windowless” simple substances, which are only fully understood by the all-knowing God described in his Théodicée (“tay-oh-dee-SAY”). For 10 points, name this optimistic German philosopher who wrote Monadology and claimed that we lived in the best of all possible worlds. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 69.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 94.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.67 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.40 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 0% | 100.88 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 99.88 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 20% | 93.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 89.25 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 107.50 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.57 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 102.17 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 91.25 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Manchester | 28 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Imperial B | 42 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 69 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Stanford A | 69 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 69 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Indiana A | 69 | -5 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois C | 69 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Harvard A | 69 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Claremont | 69 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Imperial C | 69 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 69 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Georgetown | 69 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | Maryland B | 69 | 10 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Notre Dame B | 70 | -5 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Florida A | 71 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Texas A | 71 | -5 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan C | 72 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 74 | 10 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 74 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 74 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 74 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Rutgers A | 74 | -5 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Maryland C | 74 | 10 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 74 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell C | 74 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | NC State A | 77 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD C | 83 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Wake Forest | 83 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | NYU C | 83 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Georgia Tech B | 84 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | James Madison B | 85 | 10 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 85 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | CWRU B | 87 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Kentucky | 89 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Edinburgh B | Durham | 93 | 10 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | Arizona State | 97 | -5 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Central Florida C | Florida B | 98 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 98 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | Liberty C | 98 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana C | 98 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Bowdoin A | 98 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Washington A | 98 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Imperial A | 98 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Vassar | 98 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Swarthmore | 98 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Indiana B | 99 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Cambridge B | 99 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Iowa State | 100 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UC Santa Barbara | 101 | 10 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 101 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | James Madison A | 104 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Brock | 106 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Michigan State | 106 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago E | Chicago C | 108 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 108 | 10 |
| Jack Feinberg | Brandeis A | Southern Connecticut State | 108 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Montpellier | 108 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 109 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 109 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | LSE | 109 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Warwick B | 109 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 109 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell A | 109 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Dartmouth B | 112 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Southampton B | 112 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Missouri B | 114 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 114 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Georgia Tech D | 116 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU | Duke | 117 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Johns Hopkins B | 117 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Southampton A | 119 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD B | 120 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Vanderbilt B | 120 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | City St. George's | 120 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 121 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame A | 121 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Edinburgh A | 121 | 10 |
| Samanyu Dixit | North Carolina C | Liberty B | 122 | 0 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 122 | 10 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Illinois A | 122 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brandeis A | 122 | 0 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Harvard B | 122 | 0 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 122 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 122 | 10 |