Grand Duchy of Tuscany - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

The creation of a Guianese colony for this duchy was the aim of the Thornton expedition. This duchy signed secret anti-Ottoman treaties with the celali (“jeh-LA-lee”) Ali Janbulad and the Druze emir Fakhr al-Din, who then had to flee to its capital. (15[1])A science patron from this duchy, Christina of Lorraine, was the addressee of a letter reconciling Copernicanism and scripture. An enlightened despot from this duchy sponsored a Febronian church reform at the Synod of Pistoia and made it the first state to abolish the death penalty in 1787. France (-5[1])gave (*) Spain territory in this duchy in exchange (-5[1])for Louisiana (-5[1])in the Third Treaty (10[1])of San Ildefonso. This duchy was ruled by Ferdinando I and by Joseph II’s brother, (-5[1])Leopold I. (10[2])This duchy home to Galileo became “grand” when it replaced a state named for its capital under Cosimo (10[1])I. For 10 points, (10[1])name this Italian duchy once ruled by the (10[1])Medicis (-5[1])from (10[1])Florence. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Grand Duchy of Tuscany [or Granducato di Toscana; accept Kingdom of Etruria; prompt on Duchy of Florence or Ducato di Firenze until “Florence” is read by asking “what larger state was that part of during the era clued?”]

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Summary


2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	15	87%	7%	33%	133.38

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Nick Jensen	LMM's LLM MLM	Punished "Venom" BHSU	40	15
Matt Bollinger	BHSU B	The Empire Bikes Back	89	-5
Colin Stewart	var merchants	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	97	-5
Akshar Goyal	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	99	-5
Justin Wytmar	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	103	10
Alexander Nero	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	118	-5
Doug Simons	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	120	10
Charles Hang	Les Missourables	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	120	10
Robert Wang	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	138	10
Matt Lafer	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	142	10
Stephen Liu	Lisan al-Quib	The Oldest Men in the World	150	10
Jaskaran Singh	The Dyatlov Passement incident	We Need New Names	151	-5
Jorrest Weintraub	The Jeam Team	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	152	10
Ryan Rosenberg	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	153	10
Raymond Wang	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	154	10
Kenji Shimizu	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	154	10
Jonathan Shauf	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	var merchants	154	0
Chris Ray	We Need New Names	The Dyatlov Passement incident	154	10
Henry Atkins	The Empire Bikes Back	BHSU B	154	10