Question

A fabricated letter linking this person to John the Baptist caused the arrest of a self-styled “Mother of God” named Catherine Théot. To combat price gouging on food, this person spearheaded the Law of the General Maximum. (-5[2])This person (15[2])was convinced (-5[1])the (15[1])Prussian-born (15[1])Anacharsis Cloots (-5[1])was plotting with the Exaggerators who supported the Le Père Duchesne paper. This person warned against the “ancient insanity of governments” in a speech defending a festival centered around a tree on top of a man-made (15[1])(*) mountain. (10[2])As a nod to his support of direct democracy, Thomas Carlyle (-5[1])gave this person the epithet “sea-green Incorruptible.” (10[3])This person (10[1])shot himself in the jaw (10[1])in the Hôtel (10[1])de Ville. (10[3]-5[1])De facto control over the Committee of Public Safety was (10[1])held (10[1])by, (10[3])for (10[1])10 points, (10[1])what leader (10[1])of the “Reign of Terror” (10[1])during the French Revolution? (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Maximilien Robespierre [or Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre]
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Omer KeskinOxfordImperial A36-5
Cyrus ZhouWUSTL H2OSquidward Community College36-5
Stefan VladOttawa BOttawa A3815
Sky LiA Ray of Sun in the SkyWaterloo3815
Brendan BethlehemCambridge ABristol40-5
Nathan ZhangCornell MATLABRIT4115
James StevensonMichigan A Ohio State A 4215
Akshar GoyalIllinois BChicago B44-5
Adam MonuskoMichigan B Kenyon B 8015
Andrew ZengStanford ABerkeley B8110
Ben KoberleinNotre Dame AChicago A8110
Aditya SivakumarBerkeley CBerkeley A92-5
Elizabeth BowlingIndianaNotre Dame B9910
Andrew WangIllinois AVanderbilt9910
Mitchell ShaddenTexas ATAMU9910
Michael KohnDurhamCambridge B10110
James CarrigyEdinburghWarwick10610
Ben BiggsBirminghamImperial B10910
Aditya SharmaDukeNorth Carolina B11110
ArthurOhio State BKenyon A11110
Pablo LloydHCCtag magnet: taylor's version111-5
Ryan HappelSIUEMissouri B11110
Sanjeev UppaluriSyracuse+RochesterCornell R12110
Rohan KrishnamoorthiWUSTL XYZMissouri A12210
Josh XuAuxiliary Lofthouse Cookie UniversityI will play anything with a buzzer in front of me12310
Jeffery AustinNorth Carolina ASouth Carolina B12310
David NickelPurdue BPurdue A12310
Ted WarnerBristolCambridge A12410
Kevin LeMcDouble West-CarletonOttawa C12610
Aidan CasdinJames Madison ASouth Carolina A12810
Vince IngersollTexas CTexas B13310
Andrew OliphantNC StateJames Madison B13710
William HoustonChicago BIllinois B13710
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley ABerkeley C13810
Justin LeeImperial AOxford13810
Jaik Havlicktag magnet: taylor's versionHCC13810
Kylan PowellSquidward Community CollegeWUSTL H2O13810