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 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Claremont | 69 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Warwick A | 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 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Imperial C | 69 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | Maryland B | 69 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley D | 69 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois C | 69 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Indiana A | 69 | -5 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Harvard A | 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 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Georgia Tech A | 74 | 10 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Maryland C | 74 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Rutgers A | 74 | -5 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Cornell C | 74 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 74 | 10 |
| Brian Hoff | Cornell B | Binghamton B | 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 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 85 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | James Madison B | 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 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Swarthmore | 98 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Vassar | 98 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 98 | 10 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | Liberty C | 98 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Washington A | 98 | -5 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Imperial A | 98 | 10 |
| Jisoo Park | Illinois B | Indiana C | 98 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Yale | Bowdoin A | 98 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Brock | 106 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Michigan State | 106 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Northwestern D | 108 | 10 |
| Jack Feinberg | Brandeis A | Southern Connecticut State | 108 | -5 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Montpellier | 108 | 10 |
| Eric Lipsutz | Chicago E | Chicago C | 108 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Central Florida B | 109 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | LSE | 109 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Warwick B | 109 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU B | 109 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Cornell A | 109 | 10 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 109 | 10 |
| Oliver Morten | Cardiff | Southampton B | 112 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Dartmouth B | 112 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 114 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton College | Missouri 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 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Edinburgh A | 121 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 121 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame A | 121 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 122 | 10 |
| Samanyu Dixit | North Carolina C | Liberty B | 122 | 0 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 122 | 10 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Harvard B | 122 | 0 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brandeis A | 122 | 0 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 122 | 10 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Illinois A | 122 | 10 |