Question

People of this sort often signed their names with elaborately stylized monograms containing the letters v, c, and f, which stood for vivat, crescat, floreat (“VEE-vaht, CRESS-cot, FLO-ray-aht”). These people could be identified by a Zirkel (“TSURK-ull”) or a system of uniform called the couleur. These people viewed Schmisse (“SHMISS-uh”) as a mark of honor. (10[2])Groups of these people used Schläger (“SHLAY-gur”) while engaging in the (-5[1])traditional practice of Mensur (“men-ZOOR”). These people promoted an ideal of (10[1])Grossdeutschland (“GROSS-doitch-lahnt”) while leading a convention known (10[1])as the Wartburg (“VART-burg”) Festival. (10[1])One of these people (10[1])called a dramatist a “traitor to the nation” (10[2])before confronting him inside his house in Mannheim. (10[1])That one of these people, Karl Sand (“zahnt”), murdered (10[1])August von Kotzebue, (10[2])prompting Klemens von Metternich to issue the Karlsbad (10[1])Decrees that banned these (10[2])people’s Burschenschaften (“BOOR-shin-shahft-in”). For 10 points, what sort of people participated in duels (10[1])while attending institutions (10[1])in Göttingen and (10[1])Heidelberg? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: German university students [or German college students; or Universitätsstudenten; accept members of German student associations or German fraternities or German fraternal associations or equivalents; accept Burschenschaften until read; prompt on academic fencers or duelists by asking “what sort of people participated in this particular tradition of fencing duels?”; prompt on Germans or Deutscher; prompt on youth or equivalents; prompt on scholars or equivalents]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y20100%0%5%103.40

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Alan WuRutgers BColumbia A4910
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech AFlorida B4910
Christopher SimsNorthwestern ANYU A59-5
Michał GerasimiukYale AUC Berkeley B6910
Jonathan TranCornell AIowa State A7510
Dean Ah NowClaremont AStanford A7910
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley ANorth Carolina A8310
Matt JacksonChicago AHouston A9110
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard APenn A9110
Tracy MirkinFlorida AIndiana A9910
Jason HongBrown AMinnesota B10710
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BCornell B11010
Justin WytmarIllinois AMIT A11010
Amogh KulkarniChicago BVirginia A11810
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BSouth Carolina A12210
Stevie MillerMaryland AVanderbilt A12210
Henry CafaroChicago CPenn State A13410
Sky LiToronto APurdue A13710
Kevin FanMcGill ATexas A14010
Halle FriedmanNYU ANorthwestern A14110
Vaishali SivaJohns Hopkins AImperial A14210