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 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 69 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Stanford A | 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 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Claremont | 69 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia B | Maryland B | 69 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Georgetown | 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 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Irvine | 74 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Northwestern B | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan B | Ohio State C | 98 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Imperial A | 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 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | Liberty C | 98 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | Swarthmore | 98 | 10 |
| Kelvin Ni | NYU B | Vassar | 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 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas A&M A | 101 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UC Santa Barbara | 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 |
| 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 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | WashU 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 |
| 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 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Notre Dame A | 121 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | North Carolina B | 121 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Edinburgh A | 121 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Sewanee | 122 | 10 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Illinois A | 122 | 10 |
| Joseph Xu | Bowdoin B | Harvard B | 122 | 0 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Brandeis A | 122 | 0 |
| Samanyu Dixit | North Carolina C | Liberty B | 122 | 0 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | South Carolina B | 122 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Maryland A | 122 | 10 |