Packet 5: Bonus 17
In the pamphlet Pope: A Metaphysician, the members of the Prussian Royal Academy are mocked for dishonoring this founder of theirs by comparing him to Alexander Pope. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this German philosopher whose optimistic worldview is usually simplified to the proposition that “we live in the best of all possible worlds.”
ANSWER: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
[10h] These two philosophers anonymously published Pope: A Metaphysician. A game of chess during their first meeting inspired one of them to depict a game of chess with Saladin in a play.
ANSWER: Moses Mendelssohn AND Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
[10m] This thinker praised the circuitous thought of Lessing, but wrote that his distance “will not let you enter into a direct relation with him.” This 19th-century thinker proposed that aesthetes ward off boredom by engaging in “crop rotation.”
ANSWER: Søren Kierkegaard
<Indiana, Philosophy> | E. Prelims 5 - Indiana + Vanderbilt + MIT
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 18.33 | 100% | 61% | 22% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Bruin | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Columbia A | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Texas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| NYU A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Penn State | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| Pittsburgh | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Rutgers | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | UCF | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Virginia Tech | UCLA | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 18 | 18.33 | 100% | 61% | 22% |