Question

A guild of wax merchants that functioned as this historical state’s commercial court was called the “Saint John’s Hundred.” This state was likely partly governed by a group of magistrates and nobles that assembled in the “Chamber of Facets.” In this state, a drawing of a four-legged animal with the caption “I am a wild beast” was produced (10[3])by a six-year-old boy, (10[1]-5[2])whose doodles (10[2]-5[3])are among (10[1])this state’s (10[1]-5[1])thousand-plus excavated (-5[1])birch-bark documents. (10[1])This state, which was home to the young (-5[1])artist Onfim, (-5[1])contained a kontor of the Hanseatic League called the Peterhof. (-5[1])Inhabitants of this state chose mayors called posadniki in a popular assembly that any citizen could theoretically convene by ringing (-5[1])a bell. (-5[2])This state’s veche was dissolved (10[1])in 1478, when Ivan III brought its lands under Muscovy’s rule. (10[1])For 10 points, name this medieval merchant republic in northern Rus’ (“ROOSE”) that was centered on a city called “Veliky.” (10[5])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

ANSWER: Novgorod Republic [or Novgorodskaya respublika; accept Veliky Novgorod or Great Novgorod]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2483%0%54%107.20

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Leah HonsingerFlorida AChicago A5710
Daniel SheinbergYale ACornell A5710
Alex SchmidtPenn State AYale B5710
Stevie MillerMaryland AStanford A6110
Alana DickeyVirginia AIllinois A61-5
John BroussardHouston ANYU A61-5
Collin AceRutgers BImperial A63-5
Brad MacLaineTexas AUC Berkeley A6310
Conor ThompsonIowa State AMcGill A6310
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina ARutgers A63-5
Jason HongBrown AOhio State A63-5
Qingyu ZhangFlorida BPurdue A6510
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia ACornell B6710
John MarvinChicago BGeorgia Tech A67-5
June YinWUSTL BGeorgia Tech B69-5
Sky LiToronto AChicago C7110
Todd MaslykMichigan AJohns Hopkins A79-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ANorthwestern A81-5
Ashish SubramanianDuke AWUSTL A91-5
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina AMIT A111-5
Anirudh BharadwajPenn AClaremont A113-5
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AColumbia B113-5
Zane KierzykIndiana AHarvard A11810
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AChicago B12910
Aiden DartleyRutgers ASouth Carolina A14810
Ricky LiMIT ANorth Carolina A14810
Andrew SalijNorthwestern AMinnesota A14810
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BWUSTL B14810
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ADuke A14810
Halle FriedmanNYU AHouston A1490
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BVanderbilt A14910
Clark SmithOhio State ABrown A14910
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BUC Berkeley B14910
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AMichigan A14910