Flavius Belisarius - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

While defending Rome from a siege by Vitiges, this man replaced Pope Silverius with Vigilius, who was later arrested during the Three Chapters Controversy. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this commander whose defeat of Gelimer at the Battle of Ad Decimum enabled the conquest of the Vandal Kingdom.

ANSWER: Flavius Belisarius

[10e] After refusing Justinian I’s demand to condemn the Three Chapters, Vigilius spent eight years under arrest in this Byzantine capital city. Vigilius did not attend this city’s second ecumenical council, which sided with Justinian.

ANSWER: Constantinople

[10h] This man wrote that Justinian was “admiring the heresy of Acefali” during the Three Chapters Controversy. This church father converted Reccared and standardized the use of several punctuation marks in one work.

ANSWER: Isidore of Seville

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	100%	58%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
UCSD C	UC Irvine	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCSD A	Arizona State	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	0	20
Brock	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
UBC B	Guelph	0	10	0	10
Carleton University	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa	McMaster A	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo B	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Western B	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Queen's	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Western A	0	10	0	10
Toronto C	Western C	10	10	0	20
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	10	0	10
Central Florida C	Florida A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Northwestern B	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Indiana C	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Chicago E	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame B	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Northwestern D	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Carleton College	10	10	0	20
Washington B	Claremont	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Bruin	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Louisville B	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Mississipi State	Sewanee	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Florida C	Florida B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Cardiff	City St. George's	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Durham	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Montpellier	0	10	0	10
LSE	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	Imperial C	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Oxford A	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	UCL	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Rochester	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Penn State	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	RIT	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Vassar	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	Catholic	0	10	0	10