Question
By 1996, more than half of the population of this country had invested money with the company Populli, which promised monthly returns in excess of 30 percent. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country that faced the 1997 collapse of pyramid schemes operated by companies such as VEFA, Gjallica (“jah-LEET-suh”) and Kamberi.
ANSWER: Albania [or Republic of Albania; or Shqipëria]
[10h] This scholar, the great-granddaughter of the 10th Prime Minister of Albania, included a diary entry about the Gjallica pyramid scheme in her memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History.
ANSWER: Lea Ypi
[10e] In the same year that she published Free, Ypi published a book on “purposiveness of design” in this 1781 work of philosophy, whose second section concerns the “Transcendental Doctrine of Method.”
ANSWER: Critique of Pure Reason [or Kritik der reinen Vernunft; or CPR] (by Immanuel Kant)
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |