Question
A session of this body which was called to handle unresolved matters from the Thirty Years’ War operated in perpetuity in Regensburg until 1806. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this deliberative body whose permanent members included the Archbishops of Trier (“treer”) and Mainz. This body passed the Golden Bull of 1356, which set the size of the College of Electors to seven.
ANSWER: Imperial Diet [or Reichstag; or Dieta Imperii; or Comitium Imperiale; or Diet of the Holy Roman Empire; accept the Eternal Diet of Regensburg or Immerwährender Reichstag]
[10e] In 1623, this region’s Duke Maximillian I became the eighth elector to the Imperial Diet. This German state was historically ruled by Wittelsbach kings like Ludwig II.
ANSWER: Bavaria [or Bayern; accept the Kingdom of Bavaria; accept Duchy of Bavaria; accept Free State of Bavaria]
[10h] This theologian proposed democratizing the election of the Holy Roman Emperor in his De Concordantia Theologica, written after he was excommunicated for opposing Pope Martin V’s selection of Archbishop of Trier.
ANSWER: Nicholas of Cusa [or Nicholas of Kues; or Nicolas Cusanus; or Nicolas Cusanus]
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 24 | 15.42 | 100% | 54% | 0% |
Data
| Penn State | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Georgia State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Indiana | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto C | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Waterloo A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Waterloo B | Yale | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Winona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ottawa | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |