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. (10[1])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 is often (10[1])called the father of international law. An (10[1])excommunicated thinker of this nationality wrote a book “in Geometrical Order” that equates God and nature. For 10 points, thinkers of what nationality include Hugo Grotius and the author of Ethics, Baruch (10[1])Spinoza? (-5[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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
Noah ChinVirginia Tech ALiberty C5110
Joseph ChambersVirginia ALiberty B9410
Graham TroyUNC BDuke10110
Josh SchmidtLiberty AWilliam & Mary13310
Nick SmemoeUNC DSouth Carolina134-5
Vedang SinghalUNC CWake Forest1350
Adam PascoeWake ForestUNC C1350
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaUNC D13510

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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
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