Gregory of Tours - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

According to this historian, alcohol consumption was only virtuous when done to honor God rather than for personal pleasure. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this historian whose Life of the Fathers consists of 20 hagiographies. This bishop’s Historia Francorum provides much of our knowledge on Early Frankish and Merovingian History.

ANSWER: Gregory of Tours [prompt on Gregory]

[10e] Gregory of Tours, in his Historia Francorum, wrote of how this person’s army “by the use of magic arts caused various false appearances to arise before their enemies.” He also wrote how Theodoric was killed in battle by this king of the Huns.

ANSWER: Attila [or Attila the Hun]

[10m] Much of Book IV is dedicated to how Clothar I crushed a rebellion of these people. Charlemagne torched their sacred tree, Irminsul, during an invasion when they were led by their king Widukind.

ANSWER: Saxons [accept Old Saxons or Continental Saxons]

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California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%
Canada	Main	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	14.00	90%	40%	10%
North	Main	Y	10	18.00	90%	70%	20%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	9	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	42%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	11	17.27	100%	27%	46%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

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Berkeley C	Berkeley F	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
Berkeley E	Stanford C	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	UCSC	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Claremont Scripps	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	UCI	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCSB	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	0	10	10
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
Claremont Pitzer	USC	0	10	0	10
UF B	ERAU B	0	10	10	20
UF E	Melbourne B	0	10	0	10
UF C	ERAU A	0	10	0	10
UF D	FSU	0	10	0	10
UF A	USF	0	10	0	10
FIU	Melbourne A	0	10	10	20
MSU A	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	Kenyon A	0	10	0	10
CWRU D	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
OSU B	MSU B	0	10	10	20
OSU A	OSU C	0	10	0	10
Pitt B	Pitt C	0	10	10	20
OSU D	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Clemson B	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	James Madison	0	10	10	20
Virginia B	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	NC State	0	0	0	0
Clemson A	Virginia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown B	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
Georgetown A	George Mason B	10	10	10	30
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins C	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	George Mason C	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Penn A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Catholic University	0	0	10	10
NYU B	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	Notre Dame E	0	10	0	10
Maryland D	Penn B	0	10	0	10
VCU A	UMBC A	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	Swarthmore A	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Rowan A	Lehigh B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue C	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	UIC	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Notre Dame D	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Chicago C	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota C	Carleton	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Nebraska	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin	0	10	0	10
Macalester A	Minnesota A	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Macalester B	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	BC A	0	10	10	20
BC B	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	BU	0	10	10	20
Brown C	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brown B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth	MIT B	0	10	0	10
Tufts A	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Wilson	Tufts B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin A	Williams	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Yale B	0	10	10	20
Washington B	British Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Washington A	British Columbia D	0	10	10	20
Simon Fraser	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	Alberta	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	10	0	10
UTD A	Alberta B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Arizona State B	0	10	0	10
Tulsa	Ohio	0	10	10	20
Iowa	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Texas A	McGill D	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Texas B	0	10	0	10
UTD B	UCO	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Huntsville A	0	10	10	20
Bruin A	Huntsville B	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Sewanee A	0	10	0	10
Auburn B	UAB A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Birmingham A	Sheffield B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	LSE A	0	10	0	10
Sheffield C	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
LSE B	Bristol A	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	Lancaster A	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Manchester A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Manchester B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Imperial C	10	10	10	30
Rochester	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	RIT B	0	10	0	10
ESF	Cornell-DII	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Syracuse	0	10	0	10