Ioannis Kapodistrias - 2024 Chicago Open

Question

This head of state allied with the Napist “Governmentals” of the Russian Party against the Constitutionalists of the English Party and the French Party. A legend holds that this leader, like Antoine Parmentier and Frederick the Great, put guards around a shipment of potatoes to stir public interest in the crop. (-5[1])This leader’s government was first recognized by Jean-Pierre Boyer of Haiti. This colleague of Karl (-5[1])Nesselrode helped create Swiss federalism and the Holy Alliance as Alexander I’s foreign minister. (15[1])In (*) revenge for this leader’s imprisonment of the bey of the Mani peninsula, the Mavromichalis (-5[1])clan (10[1])assassinated him outside a church in his capital of Nafplion. (-5[1])This (-5[1])former minister of the Septinsular (-5[1])Republic (-5[1])turned down leadership of the Filiki Eteria before establishing the First Hellenic Republic. For 10 points, name this first head (-5[1])of state (10[1]-5[1])of independent Greece. ■END■ (0[9])

ANSWER: Ioannis Kapodistrias [or John Kapodistrias; or Giovanni Capo d’Istria; or Giovanni Capodistria]

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Summary


2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	13	23%	8%	69%	102.67

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Andrew Wang	Punished "Venom" BHSU	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	50	-5
Doug Simons	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	The Jeam Team	65	-5
Justin Wytmar	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	79	15
Ryan Rosenberg	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	Lisan al-Quib	94	-5
Matt Jackson	LMM's LLM MLM	We Need New Names	95	10
Gareth Thorlakson	The Empire Bikes Back	Les Missourables	105	-5
Daniel Ma	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	The Oldest Men in the World	106	-5
Tracy Mirkin	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	111	-5
Ryan Westbrook	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	112	-5
Michael Coates	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	132	-5
Jaskaran Singh	The Dyatlov Passement incident	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	134	10
Emmett Laurie	I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)	var merchants	134	-5
Arya Karthik	Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	138	0
Conor Thompson	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	138	0
Kevin Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer	138	0
Jorrest Weintraub	The Jeam Team	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	138	0
Eric Bobrow	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	Punished "Venom" BHSU	138	0
Donal Ryan	Les Missourables	The Empire Bikes Back	138	0
Sam Bailey	The Oldest Men in the World	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	138	0
Nathaniel Hull	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy	138	0
Ved Muthusamy	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	138	0