Francisco de Miranda - 2025 VAULT II

Packet 9: Bonus 16

This man was dubbed the “First Universal Venezuelan” after he designed the first Venezuelan flag on the ship Leander. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Venezuelan revolutionary who died in a Spanish prison in Cadiz. This man’s early South American independence campaigns earned him the title “The Precursor.”

ANSWER: Francisco de Miranda

[10e] Miranda was dubbed “the Precursor” as a reference to this creator of Gran Colombia who was nicknamed “The Liberator.”

ANSWER: Simon Bolívar

[10m] Francisco de Miranda lost support after many devout Catholics interpreted the fact that one of these events was on Maundy Thursday as a sign. The Marquis of Pombal gave a command to “bury the dead and heal the living” after one of these events hit Lisbon in 1755.

ANSWER: earthquake [accept 1812 Caracas earthquake or 1755 Lisbon earthquake or Great Lisbon earthquake]

<History - World, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 09

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
36	20.56	97%	97%	11%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Abbey Park	Burlington Trojans	0	10	10	20	EM
Albanian Rift in the Sky	Basileus II: Electric Boogaloo	0	10	10	20	EM
Always Set the Kurve	Midnight Bus to Vista	0	0	10	10	M
An even worse idea	Armand duplantis fan club	0	10	10	20	EM
Bella Vista	Renert	10	10	10	30	HEM
Belmont A	Mansfield A	0	10	10	20	EM
Birmingham A	Oxford	0	10	10	20	EM
California	Georgia B	0	10	10	20	EM
Cambridge	Bath	0	10	10	20	EM
Chattahoochee A	Midtown	0	10	10	20	EM
Cheese Sandwich	Martingrove	0	10	10	20	EM
Eden Prairie	Burnsville	0	10	10	20	EM
Edinburgh	Chimera	0	10	10	20	EM
Glebe	Northern	0	10	10	20	EM
Heauton Timorumenos	whatever	0	10	10	20	EM
Hoover	Innovation A	0	10	10	20	EM
Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?	Booz Allen Interns	10	10	10	30	HEM
Johns Creek	Innovation B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Lambert A	Northview B	0	10	10	20	EM
Lambert B	Chattahoochee B	0	10	10	20	EM
Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance	Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family	0	10	10	20	EM
Manchester B	Manchester A	0	10	10	20	EM
Mansfield B	Waltham A	0	10	0	10	E
Michael Touse-Squid	Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu	0	10	10	20	EM
Minnetonka A	Minnetonka B	0	10	10	20	EM
Minnetonka C	Providence	0	10	10	20	EM
Northview A	Exhibition	0	10	10	20	EM
Not Just Biking	The Young Jits	0	10	10	20	EM
Ostia Orcas	They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days	0	10	10	20	EM
PC Chris Master Race	Mountain Dew is Better	10	10	10	30	HEM
Sheffield B	Sheffield A	0	10	10	20	EM
Southampton	Birmingham B	0	10	10	20	EM
Texas B	Georgia A	0	10	10	20	EM
They fuck you up your buzz and neg	Ted Offensive	0	10	10	20	EM
Virginia Tech	I have no buzzer and I must neg	0	10	10	20	EM
Warperial	Southperial	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech	2026-01-24	✓	6	21.67	100%	100%	17%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS	2026-03-13	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
VAULT II at McGill	2026-03-13	✓	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
VAULT II at UCSB	2026-03-13	✓	4	17.50	75%	100%	0%
VAULT II Northern UK	2026-04-24	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
VAULT II Southern UK	2026-04-24	✓	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
VAULT II at Harvard	2026-04-30	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
VAULT II at MINT	2026-06-19	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
VAULT II Stanford Online	2026-07-17	✓	8	22.50	100%	100%	25%