Brian Nelson’s book The Silence and the Scorpion examines a coup attempt against this leader that saw snipers open fire on protestors on an overpass. This leader used the example of Florentino fighting the Devil to encourage people to vote “No” in a recall, while those who voted “Yes” were publicized in the Tascón List. This leader hosted the show Hello, Mr. President, during which he often compared an American president to “Mister Danger” from the novel Doña Barbara. This leader was supported by the Fifth Republic Movement that evolved out of his MBR-200, which led a failed 1992 coup against Carlos Andrés Pérez. This leader launched socialist programs as part of a “Bolivarian Revolution” that continued past his 2013 death. For 10 points, name this Venezuelan president succeeded by Nicolás Maduro. ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.33 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 111.17 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.50 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 88.83 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.67 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 117.40 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 107.20 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 122.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 125.25 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 106.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 110.25 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 121.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford B | 43 | -5 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 48 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Missouri | 54 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Michigan B | 59 | 10 |
| Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Illinois C | 62 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Oxford A | 62 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | WashU B | 62 | 10 |
| Sushanth Balaraman | TAMU | Texas B | 62 | -5 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Warwick B | 64 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UBC | 66 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Chicago D | 67 | -5 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida State A | 67 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 67 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | MIT A | 70 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 72 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 73 | 10 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 73 | 10 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Imperial A | 78 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 78 | -5 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Bristol | 79 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | South Carolina | 87 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC B | 87 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | UCF B | 87 | 10 |
| Sam Konkel | Chicago C | Chicago A | 100 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Virginia A | 101 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 103 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 106 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern B | 107 | 10 |
| Eva Lettiere-Roberts | George Washington A | Columbia C | 108 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | ESF A | 108 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Cambridge D | 110 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Maryland A | 112 | 10 |
| Ethan Newman | Michigan State | Kenyon | 113 | -5 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | Johns Hopkins A | 113 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 114 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 114 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 114 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | ASU | 115 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 116 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 116 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 116 | 10 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Purdue | 116 | -5 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 117 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 118 | 10 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham | Cambridge C | 119 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 119 | 10 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 119 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 119 | -5 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW B | 119 | 10 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | Penn B | 120 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia B | 120 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU A | 120 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Michigan D | 120 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 120 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Dartmouth A | 120 | 10 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 120 | 10 |
| Luke Ketchum | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 123 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 123 | 10 |
| Anthony Yin | Case Western B | Carnegie Mellon A | 126 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 130 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Liberty C | 131 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 131 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brown A | 131 | 10 |
| Elias Kradel | Kenyon | Michigan State | 132 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | Chicago B | 132 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Manchester | 132 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 132 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Harvard A | 132 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 132 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Valencia A | 132 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue | Northwestern A | 132 | 10 |
| Louis Harney | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 132 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 132 | 10 |