Question
Letters between this ruler and the Dutch envoy Isaac Massa suggest that Massa wished to defect to this ruler’s country. Following a brideshow, this ruler’s first wife was likely poisoned by his mother, known as the “great nun” Martha. This ruler elevated the leaders of the Second Volunteer Army to nobility, including Kuzma Minin. While hiding in the Hypatian Monastery, this ruler was targeted by a group that (*) Ivan Susanin led into a forest out of which they never emerged. This ruler [emphasize] gave up the territory of Ingria in the Treaty of Stolbovo and later signed the Truce of Deulino, allowing for the return of his father Filaret. A Life for the Tsar dramatizes this ruler’s election in the 1613 Zemsky Sobor, and he was succeeded by his son Alexis. For 10 points, name this tsar who ended the Time of Troubles, the first leader of a dynasty that ruled Russia until 1917. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 61 | 15 |
Adrian Wong | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 63 | -5 |
Jason Rohfritsch | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 64 | -5 |
Mattias Ehatamm | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 92 | -5 |
Stefan Vlad | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 134 | -5 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 147 | 10 |
Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 153 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 153 | 0 |
Jason Zhang | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 153 | 0 |
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 60.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 99.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 60% | 20% | 80% | 120.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 104.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 33% | 114.40 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 117.00 |