Question

During this conflict, the protagonist of a novel gives speeches using the pseudonym “Omnes Omnibus” before joining a commedia dell’arte group. In a novel primarily set during this conflict, the note “Drive him fast to his tomb” is left with a knife (10[1])stabbed into a man’s heart (10[2])while he slept in his mansion. (10[1]-5[1])This conflict provides the backdrop for (10[1])Rafael Sabatini’s novel Scaramouche. During this conflict, a man kisses a fainted woman’s (10[1])forehead and whispers, “A life you love.” Marguerite (-5[1])learns that her husband Percy Blakeney saves people (10[1])during this conflict (10[2])in (10[2])Baroness (10[3])Orczy’s (10[2])(“ORT-see’s”) novel (10[3]-5[1])The Scarlet Pimpernel. (10[3])In this conflict, people whose names are knitted by Madame Defarge (10[4])are (10[1])ordered (10[1])to be executed. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, Charles Dickens’s (10[4])A Tale of Two Cities (10[2])is set during (10[1])what conflict in which Sydney (10[1])Carton is guillotined? (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: French Revolution
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Raymond WangCornell ARIT B4110
Maximilian Niebur (UG)Johns HopkinsPenn4610
Amogh KulkarniGeodesicSouth Carolina4610
Sam Macchi (DII)VassarNYU B5210
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AGeorgia Tech A52-5
Emmett Bicknell (DII)CedarvilleOhio State B5810
Enoch YuenImperial AWarwick7110
Joel MilesMinnesota BIowa State79-5
Michael KohnDurham ACambridge A8710
Caleb Hines (DII)Liberty B (DII)Virginia B (UG)9010
Ian DewanKielKCL9010
Giovanni Mazzeo (DII)Virginia A (UG)Maryland A (Grad)9110
Rahul KumarRice AIowa B9110
Rosa XiaCornell BRIT A9210
Mitchell ShaddenTexas AIowa A9210
Todd MaslykMichigan AOhio State A9210
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)UNC A (Grad)9310
Patrick Torre (DII)Maryland C (DII)William & Mary A (UG)9310
Jack Rado (DII)Columbia BColumbia A94-5
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghCambridge B9410
Oliver HargraveOxford AOxford B9410
Andrew KelleyKentuckyTennessee9410
Perry O'Connor (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)UNC C (UG)9710
Aidan Jordan (DII)KenyonMichigan B9710
Freddy PottsSheffieldOxford C9710
Kevin ParkClaremont AMichigan State A10810
Truman FillbrandtUW ASorbonne10810
Jerry VinokurovJohn JayRowan10810
Rohan DalalGeorgia Tech BHarding10810
Davin SivertsonAlabamaVanderbilt B10910
Halle FriedmanNYU AColumbia C11010
Miller Doer (DII)Liberty C (DII)JMU A (UG)11310
Keegan WulfMinnesota CArizona State113-5
Robbie HahnTexas A&M BUBC A11310
Sophie EttingerBinghamtonCornell C11810
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)Virginia C (UG)11810
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M AAppalachian State11810
Andrei HuiCambridge CImperial B11810
Jacob Martin (UG)Maryland B (UG)GWU A (UG)12310
Lewys JenkinsBristolDurham B12310
Vedang Singhal (DII)UNC D (DII)GWU B (Grad)12610
Logan Mitchell (UG)JMU B (UG)Roanoke College A (DII)13110
Guy IndoranteIowa StateMinnesota B13410
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech AVanderbilt A13410
Moses KitakuleColumbia AColumbia B13510