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

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
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern AIowa8710
Andrew ZengStanford BPurdue9910
Ved MuthusamyNorthwestern BNotre Dame A10010
Cole HartungGeorgetown AGeorgetown B10010
Christopher JosephNotre Dame CNotre Dame B120-5
Jonah HubertNotre Dame BNotre Dame C13410

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California2025-02-01Y3100%0%0%74.67
Florida2025-02-01Y3100%0%67%122.67
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y6100%0%17%114.83
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