Headless Horseman - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

One of the stories in Johann Musäus’s “Legends of Rübezahl” possibly influenced this character. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this character who supposedly used to be a Hessian soldier and “vanished in a flash of fire” in one story.

ANSWER: Headless Horseman [or Galloping Hessian; prompt on Brom Bones by asking “Brom Bones may be what other character?”]

[10e] Diedrich Knickerbocker is attributed as the source of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and this other Washington Irving story. A folktale about Peter Klaus inspired this story in which a man falls asleep for 20 years.

ANSWER: “Rip Van Winkle”

[10h] Irving’s time in Europe included working on a book about this person with the help of Alexander von Humboldt. Joel Barlow wrote an 1807 epic poem about this figure that invokes “Almighty Freedom” instead of the Muses.

ANSWER: Christopher Columbus [accept A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus or The Columbiad]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	33%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	71%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	18.33	67%	100%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	86%	29%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	89%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Stanford L	10	10	10	30
Stanford M	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Emory B	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Emory A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Alabama A	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Auburn C	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Georgia A	Emory B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Emory A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Bard A	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Princeton A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Haverford A	10	10	10	30
Penn B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Penn State A	Lehigh	0	10	10	20
Penn State B	Rutgers A	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Miami	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Purdue D	0	10	0	10
SIUE A	UIUC B	0	0	0	0
UChicago A	UChicago C	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	UChicago D	0	10	0	10
UIUC A	WashU D	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	UIUC C	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	UIUC D	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	WashU C	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State	McGill E	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	McGill E	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Central Oklahoma	0	10	10	20
Vassar B	Arkansas	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Central Oklahoma	WUSTL A	10	10	0	20
Iowa	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	McGill E	10	10	10	30
Mississippi State	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State	McGill E	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	McGill E	0	10	0	10
Texas D	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Texas C	Ole Miss	0	10	0	10
Colorado College	Texas B	0	0	0	0
UCF A	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Florida Tech A	10	0	0	10
Florida State University A	UF D	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF E	0	10	0	10
UF A	UF F	10	10	0	20
Tusculum A	Auburn C	0	0	0	0