Maximilien Robespierre - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

This person was removed from power in July 1794 and executed without a trial, beginning a period known as the Thermidorian Reaction. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this statesman, whose radical Jacobin policies made him an architect of the Reign of Terror. This person was a member of the Committee of Public Safety from 1793 onwards.

ANSWER: Maximilien Robespierre

[10e] Robespierre was a prominent figure in the First Republic, created after this event. This event is often said to have begun with the storming of the Bastille (“bas-TEE”) in Paris in 1789.

ANSWER: French Revolution

[10h] Madame de Staël argued that Robespierre’s attempt to establish this religion damaged his credibility. This deistic religion was a rival of the Cult of Reason, which was itself intended to replace Catholicism.

ANSWER: Cult of the Supreme Being [or Culte de l’Être suprême]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	25.71	100%	100%	57%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Florida	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	24.44	100%	100%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	11	21.82	91%	100%	27%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	24.44	100%	100%	44%
North	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	26.25	100%	100%	63%
South Central	Main	Y	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	24.17	100%	92%	50%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	20.00	100%	88%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley Boss Bandit	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Skeleton King	10	10	10	30
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Archer Queen	10	10	10	30
UCSC	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	UC Irvine	10	10	0	20
USC B	Claremont B	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	UCLA E	10	10	10	30
USC A	UCLA F	10	10	10	30
Claremont C	UCSD B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa D	McGill A	10	10	10	30
McGill C	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa A	McGill E	10	10	10	30
Carleton A	Ottawa C	10	10	0	20
Florida A	Florida B	10	10	10	30
South Florida A	Florida State A	10	10	0	20
Florida Tech A	Florida Tech B	10	10	10	30
UCF A	ERAU Daytona A	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	WVU A	10	10	0	20
CWRU D	Ohio State D	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Pittsburgh	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
CWRU C	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
WVU B	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Michigan State B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	CWRU A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State C	Michigan State D	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Louisville C	10	10	10	30
JMU B	Liberty A	10	10	10	30
Liberty C	UNC D	10	10	10	30
UNC C	NCSU B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	Tusculum A	10	10	0	20
VCU A	UNC A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech C	Virginia A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Duke A	10	10	10	30
William & Mary A	William & Mary C	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	William & Mary B	10	10	0	20
George Mason B	George Mason C	10	10	0	20
Penn	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Maryland C	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Rutgers C	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	NYU C	10	10	0	20
George Mason A	Rowan	10	10	10	30
Rutgers D	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Stony Brook	Princeton	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	Vassar B	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Orange	10	10	10	30
Iowa A	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Rose-Hulman A	Iowa B	10	10	10	30
Illinois Blue	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Illinois Urbana	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Purdue D	10	10	0	20
WashU Grolars	Illinois Champaign	10	10	0	20
William Woods University A	Illinois Canada	10	10	0	20
Macalester	Minnesota	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	10	10	0	20
Michigan Tech	Wisconsin C	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	10	0	20
Boston University B	Southern Connecticut State University A	10	10	0	20
Williams A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Washington Chum	Washington State	10	10	10	30
Washington Atlantic	Washington Steelhead	10	10	0	20
Alberta A	Texas	10	10	10	30
Boise State	Alberta B	10	10	10	30
Washington Masu	Arizona State A	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	Washington Chinook	10	10	10	30
British Columbia B	Washington Coho	10	10	0	20
Washington Sockeye	British Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Tulsa A	Nebraska B	10	10	0	20
Kansas State A	Central Oklahoma A	10	10	0	20
Murray State College B	Harding	10	10	0	20
Oklahoma	Central Oklahoma B	10	10	0	20
Nebraska C	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Murray State College A	Tulsa B	10	10	10	30
Auburn B	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Clemson A	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech F	10	10	10	30
Chipola College	Mississippi State A	10	10	10	30
Sewanne	Tennessee Tech	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt B	Clemson B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech E	Vanderbilt C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Auburn C	10	10	10	30
Sheffield A	Durham C	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh C	Edinburgh D	10	10	0	20
Sheffield B	Edinburgh B	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh A	York	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Imperial D	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Cambridge D	LSE	10	10	10	30
Cambridge E	Southampton	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Cardiff	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Oxford	10	10	0	20
Warwick	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Durham B	Durham D	10	10	0	20
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
ESF	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
RIT B	RIT A	10	10	0	20
Rochester	Cornell C	10	10	0	20