Salerno - 2025 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

In a text from this city, a piece of bread with a sator square inscribed on it is prescribed as a treatment for labor. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this city, the home of Trota and an early school that offered training for midwives. Sikelgaita, the wife of Robert Guiscard (“ro-BAIR geese-CAR”), may have influenced her husband’s decision to conquer this city, her former home.

ANSWER: Salerno [or Salierno]

[10m] Schola Medica Salernitana’s zenith was reached during the reign of these Germanic people. These people name a confederation that defeated Frederick Barbarossa at the Battle of Legnano.

ANSWER: Lombards [or Longobards; or Langobards, or Langobardi]

[10e] As depicted on the cover of Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine, Robert, the Duke of this region, legendarily refused treatment at Salerno, only for his wife to die when she sucked the poison from him. William the Conqueror served as duke of this region prior to his invasion of England.

ANSWER: Normandy [or Normandie]

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California	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	13	15.38	100%	39%	15%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	90%	40%	0%
North	Main	Y	11	12.73	91%	36%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	18.33	100%	83%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	58%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
UK (North)	UK	N	5	30.00	100%	100%	100%
UK (South)	UK	N	8	22.50	100%	100%	25%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley E	0	10	10	20
Berkeley F	Stanford C	0	0	10	10
UCSC	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Claremont Pitzer	UCI	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCSB	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	USC	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
Carleton	McGill C	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Ottawa	10	10	10	30
McGill B	Queen's A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
Queen's B	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	McMaster A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto F	0	10	10	20
Toronto H	Toronto I	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto J	0	0	10	10
McMaster C	Toronto K	0	0	10	10
Guelph B	Western Ontario	0	0	10	10
FIU	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	OSU C	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Pitt A	0	0	10	10
CWRU D	MSU B	0	10	10	20
Pitt C	Kenyon A	0	0	10	10
MSU A	CWRU C	0	10	10	20
Kenyon B	OSU D	0	0	10	10
OSU A	Pitt B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	James Madison	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Liberty C	Virginia B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	North Carolina C	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Tennessee A	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
Tusculum	NC State	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Clemson B	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Maryland D	Catholic University	0	0	10	10
UMBC A	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins C	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	Penn A	0	10	10	20
Penn B	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
George Mason B	NYU A	0	0	10	10
NYU B	George Mason A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown B	Notre Dame E	0	0	10	10
VCU A	Georgetown A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
UF D	ERAU B	0	10	10	20
UCF A	FSU	0	0	10	10
Melbourne A	UCF B	0	10	10	20
UF C	UF A	0	0	10	10
UF B	UF E	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame D	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
UIC	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Macalester A	0	0	10	10
St. Thomas	Macalester B	0	10	10	20
Minnesota C	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Nebraska	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Wisconsin	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
BC A	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	BC B	0	0	10	10
BU	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis Lloyd George	Amherst A	0	10	10	20
Brown B	Brandeis Orlando	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Dartmouth	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Cornell-UG	0	0	10	10
MIT B	Brandeis Wilson	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
Yale B	Tufts B	0	0	10	10
Williams	Brown C	0	0	10	10
WashU B	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Truman State	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU A	0	10	10	20
WashU D	WashU C	0	0	10	10
Alberta B	Ohio	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	McGill D	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Rose State	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
Tulsa	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
UCO	Arizona State B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	UTD A	0	10	10	20
Iowa	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Bristol B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Durham A	0	0	10	10
City St George's A	Birmingham A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh B	Bristol A	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Lancaster A	LSE A	0	10	10	20
Sheffield C	Manchester A	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Manchester B	0	10	10	20
Durham B	Oxford A	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Sheffield B	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Guelph A	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton B	Syracuse	0	0	10	10
RIT A	RIT B	10	10	10	30
ESF	Rochester	0	10	10	20