Question
In this region, ordinary civilians trampled upon and spat on the corpse of the “admiral of admirals” Maion after he was assassinated by Matthew Bonellus. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this region ruled by the Hauteville dynasty. Charles of Anjou’s later rule over this region was overthrown in a revolt known as its namesake “Vespers.”
ANSWER: Sicily [or Sicilia; accept the Kingdom of Sicily; accept the Sicilian Vespers]
[10h] This historian documented the revolt of Matthew Bonellus against the Hauteville Dynasty. This man’s History of the Rulers of Sicily claims that William I kicked his son to death, earning him the epithet “the Bad.”
ANSWER: Hugo Falcandus
[10m] Hugo Falcandus’s history begins with the death of this ruler, William the Bad’s father. Matthew Bonellus’s revolt resulted in the destruction of the original atlas named for this ruler created by Muhammad al-Idrisi.
ANSWER: Roger II of Sicily [or Ruggero II; or Roger the Great; prompt on Roger or Ruggero; prompt on Tabula Rogeriana or The Book of Roger]
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Summary
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Data
| BHSU ReFantazio | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Clown Senpais | Northeast by Northwestern | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | Clown Squad | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Notre Dame | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| hawk two of | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU Rebirth | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Simple Vibes | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Limp Franceskit | Defying Suavity | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Walston et. al. | Cope is the thing with feathers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| just one more half-dot bro | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cry of the Common Loon | Stanford+ | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |