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 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 69 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Imperial C | 69 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois C | 69 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Indiana A | 69 | -5 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | Maryland B | 69 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Georgetown | 69 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 69 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Stanford A | 69 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 69 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Harvard A | 69 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Claremont | 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 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 74 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 74 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Maryland C | 74 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Rutgers A | 74 | -5 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 74 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell C | 74 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 74 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 74 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | NC State A | 77 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Wake Forest | 83 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | NYU C | 83 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD 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 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Imperial A | 98 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana C | 98 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Swarthmore | 98 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Vassar | 98 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Bowdoin A | 98 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Washington A | 98 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Cambridge B | 99 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Indiana 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 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Michigan State | 106 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Brock | 106 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Montpellier | 108 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 108 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago E | Chicago C | 108 | 10 |
| Jack Feinberg | Brandeis A | Southern Connecticut State | 108 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 109 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | LSE | 109 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Warwick B | 109 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell A | 109 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 109 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 109 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Southampton B | 112 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Dartmouth 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 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | City St. George's | 120 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UCSD B | 120 | 10 |
| Beckett Gillmore | Louisville B | Vanderbilt B | 120 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 121 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Edinburgh A | 121 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame 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 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 122 | 10 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Harvard B | 122 | 0 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brandeis A | 122 | 0 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 122 | 10 |