Mieszko I - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

This man’s forces were twice defeated by a brother of Egbert the One-Eyed named Wichmann (“VIKH-mahn”) the Younger. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this first duke and Christian ruler of the “Gniezno State” who was a grandfather of Canute the Great and a husband to Dobrawa. The Dagome iudex references this ruler’s potential baptismal name.

ANSWER: Mieszko I (“mee-ESH-ko the first”) [prompt on Mieszko]

[10m] Mieszko conquered this former capital city that contained the Royal Wawel (“VAH-vel”) Castle. Supposedly, a creature from this city named Smok Wawelski (“vah-VEL-ski”) was tricked to eat sulfur-stuffed cow skins.

ANSWER: Kraków [or Royal Capital City of Kraków or Cracow]

[10e] Another High Duke of Poland, Konrad of Masovia, led one of these campaigns in Chelmno (“KELM-no”) land in Prussia. The third of these holy expeditions to the Middle East failed to capture Jerusalem.

ANSWER: Crusades [accept Prussian Crusade; accept Third Crusade; accept crusaders]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	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	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	17.27	100%	46%	27%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	11.00	100%	10%	0%

Data


Arkansas	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Oregon State	0	0	10	10
Amherst A	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Williams A	Boston University B	0	0	10	10
BU A	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Tufts B	Brandeises Brew	0	0	10	10
Brown A	Harvard A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Emory B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Tennesse A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Tennesse B	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Kenyon A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan D (DII)	0	0	10	10
CWRU C (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Kenyon B (DII)	0	0	10	10
Michigan State C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
LSE B	Bristol B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Oxford A	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Southampton	0	0	10	10
Durham B	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Bristol A	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Durham A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	Vanderbilt	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10
Stanford L	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Stanford M	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Auburn C	Georgia Tech E	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Clemson A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State	McGill E	0	0	10	10
Colorado College	Missouri	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Ole Miss	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Vassar B	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Texas C	0	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Texas D	0	0	10	10
UW A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
SFU	UBC A	0	0	10	10
UW B	UBC B	0	10	10	20
UF E	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF D	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UF B	Florida State University A	0	10	10	20
UF A	UF C	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Carabrandeis	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Clark A	0	10	10	20
A Brandeis Supreme	Diamond Brandeis	0	0	10	10
Yale A	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Yale C	Northeastern A	0	0	10	10