Question

A woman of this nationality promoted female education in The Learned Maid and joined a reform movement led by the Frenchman Jean de Labadie (“la-ba-DEE”). A thinker of this nationality claimed that there would be natural laws “even if God did not exist” and escaped from a castle in a chest of books. Jonathan Israel traced the “radical Enlightenment” to a thinker of this nationality who wrote a “book forged in Hell” that claims that the Bible should be viewed as a fallible historical text. A jurist of this nationality who wrote Mare Liberum (-5[1])is often called the father of international law. (10[3])An excommunicated thinker of this nationality wrote a book “in Geometrical Order” that equates God and nature. For 10 points, (10[1])thinkers of what nationality include Hugo Grotius and the author of Ethics, Baruch Spinoza? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Dutch [accept Netherlandish; accept Netherlands or Dutch Republic or the United Provinces of the Netherlands] (The philosopher in the first sentence is Anna Maria van Schurman.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Todd MaslykMichigan ACase Western B92-5
Kevin ZhengMichigan BOhio State B10010
Simon ZimmermanOhio State AKenyon10010
Elie AounCase Western ACarnegie Mellon B10010
Stevie MillerCarnegie Mellon AMichigan D12010
Andrew HarmsMichigan StateMichigan C13410
Oliver ThompsonCase Western BMichigan A13510

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California2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%74.67
Florida2025-02-01Y3100%0%67%122.67
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Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y683%0%17%102.80
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%91.50
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%107.00
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%0%116.80
Overflow2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%104.00
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%113.50
Southeast2025-02-01Y367%0%33%126.00
UK2025-02-01Y1090%0%20%104.22
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y786%0%29%115.67
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y367%0%0%123.50