Marquis de Pombal - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In 1760, this man failed to resolve the diplomatic precedence rankings in European diplomacy by only privileging emissaries of the Holy Roman Emperor and Pope, but was rebuffed by the French minister. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this powerful statesman and minister to Joseph I. He was nicknamed the “Nero of Trafaria” after he burned the village down to capture rebels.

ANSWER: Marquis de Pombal [or Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, First Marquis of Pombal and First Count of Oeiras; accept Pombaline architectural style; accept Baixa Pombalina]

[10e] Pombal reformed Portugal after a 1755 earthquake struck this Portuguese capital city, razing much of its Manueline architecture.

ANSWER: Lisbon [or Lisboa; accept Great Lisbon earthquake or 1755 Lisbon earthquake]

[10m] Pombal feuded with this group, which was expelled from the Portuguese empire following an attempt on Joseph I’s life in the Távora affair. Jansenists were critical to the expulsion of this group from France.

ANSWER: Jesuits [or Society of Jesus; or Jesuit Order; or SJ; or Societas Jesu; accept expulsion of the Jesuits; reject “Catholic Church”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	18.18	100%	55%	27%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Stanford M	Stanford L	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	WashU D	0	10	0	10
UIUC B	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Purdue D	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
SIUE A	UChicago B	0	10	0	10
UChicago D	UIUC D	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Ole Miss	WUSTL A	0	10	0	10
A Brandeis Supreme	Boston University B	0	10	10	20
UIUC A	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
UIUC C	UChicago A	0	10	0	10
UChicago C	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	WashU C	0	10	0	10
CWRU B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan C (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	0	10	0	10
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan State C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
McGill E	Arkansas	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma	NYU A	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
Florida State University A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF B	UF A	0	10	10	20
UCF A	UF C	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech B	UF D	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech A	UF E	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Bristol B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge D	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	LSE B	0	10	10	20
LSE A	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Southampton B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Team 1	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Amherst A	Williams A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Carabrandeis	Brown A	0	10	0	10
Clark A	Bowdoin B	0	10	10	20
Boston University A	Diamond Brandeis	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeises Brew	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Northeastern A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Yale C	0	10	0	10
Bard A	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Rowan A	Haverford A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Penn B	Penn State B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Penn State A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers C	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Texas C	Texas D	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Oregon State	0	10	10	20
UW B	UBC A	0	10	10	20
UBC B	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UW A	SFU	0	10	10	20