This city’s “Blind Donkey Alley” is apocryphally named for an ass who failed to stop a neighboring city from stealing the belfry’s golden dragon statue in 1382. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city whose militia supposedly massacred French soldiers who could not pronounce a phrase meaning “shield and friend,” triggering the Battle of the Golden Spurs.
ANSWER: Bruges (“broozh”) [or Brugge] (The neighboring city is Ghent.)
[10e] Bruges’s Gruuthuse (“HROOT-hoo-suh”) family created the “White Bear” society devoted to this activity. Henry II died from injuries suffered during this activity during celebrations for the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.
ANSWER: jousting [accept tournaments, melées, lancing, spearing, haslitudes, or word forms or equivalents; accept tournament society or jousting society; prompt on games, sports, duels, combat, or equivalents of any]
[10h] In 1323, the Burgomaster of Bruges joined a tax revolt led by Nicolaas Zannekin, but was killed at a battle outside of this town. Philippe of Orléans won a 1677 battle near this town in the Franco-Dutch War.
ANSWER: Cassel [accept Battle of Cassel; accept Mont Cassel or Kasselberg or Mont-Cassel]
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