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 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | WashU B | 62 | 10 |
| Sushanth Balaraman | TAMU | Texas B | 62 | -5 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Oxford A | 62 | -5 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE | Warwick B | 64 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | UBC | 66 | 10 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida State A | 67 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Chicago D | 67 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 67 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard A | MIT A | 70 | -5 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Winona State | 72 | 10 |
| Kaitlyn Farrin | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 73 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 73 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 78 | -5 |
| Lucas Johns | Warwick A | Imperial A | 78 | 10 |
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Bristol | 79 | 10 |
| Biniam Alaro | Florida A | UCF B | 87 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | South Carolina | 87 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC 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 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 114 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 114 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 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 |
| Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Purdue | 116 | -5 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Haverford A | 116 | 10 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Alabama A | 117 | 10 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Imperial B | 118 | 10 |
| Declan Cobb | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 119 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW B | 119 | 10 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham | Cambridge C | 119 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 119 | 10 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 119 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brown A | 131 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 131 | 10 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Valencia A | 132 | 10 |
| Elias Kradel | Kenyon | Michigan State | 132 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago D | Chicago B | 132 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Harvard 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 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Manchester | 132 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 132 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 132 | 10 |