kings of Sparta - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Herodotus wrote that holders of this position had sole jurisdiction over who should marry unbetrothed heiresses and matters concerning public roads. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this hereditary position held simultaneously by members of the Agiad and Eurypontid families, both of whom claimed descent from Heracles. This office’s powers were kept in check by both the gerousia and the ephors.

ANSWER: kings of Sparta [or archagetai; prompt on basileus or kings or monarchs by asking “of what state?”]

[10h] Description acceptable. Spartan kings were the only men under sixty eligible for the gerousia, whose members were elected by the Spartan Assembly using this method, which required adjudicators to sit in a windowless room nearby.

ANSWER: voice vote [accept acclamation; accept oral vote; accept making the loudest noise or shouting the loudest or equivalents]

[10e] Only full Spartan citizens could take part in the Assembly, a designation that excluded both free perioikoi and this class of state-owned laborers.

ANSWER: helots [prompt on slaves or enslaved people]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	14.00	80%	50%	10%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	24.44	100%	100%	44%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	17.50	75%	67%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
UCSD C	UCSD B	0	0	10	10
Central Florida A	Florida B	10	0	10	20
Central Florida B	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida C	Central Florida C	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Carleton University	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Guelph	10	0	10	20
Western C	McGill B	10	0	10	20
McMaster B	Brock	0	0	0	0
Waterloo A	Ottawa	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	Queen's	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	Toronto F	10	0	10	20
UBC A	Western A	10	10	10	30
Western B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	CWRU A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
NC State A	Duke	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	James Madison A	10	0	10	20
James Madison B	VCU	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	Liberty C	10	10	10	30
Virginia	NC State B	10	10	10	30
William and Mary	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
South Carolina A	Wake Forest	10	0	10	20
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Chicago E	Northwestern C	0	0	10	10
Northwestern D	Illinois C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Chicago D	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Indiana C	10	0	10	20
Brandeis B	Harvard A	10	0	10	20
Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Yale	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth B	Brandeis A	10	0	10	20
Brown	MIT	10	0	10	20
Claremont	Washington A	0	0	10	10
Missouri B	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Missouri A	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Washington B	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	20
Murray State A	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Bruin	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Alabama B	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Louisville A	Mississipi State	0	0	0	0
Tennessee B	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	10	0	10	20
UC Irvine	UC Santa Barbara	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	Arizona State	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	Cardiff	10	0	0	10
UCL	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Imperial A	10	0	10	20
Imperial C	City St. George's	10	10	10	30
Durham	LSE	10	0	10	20
Manchester	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Montpellier	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Oxford B	10	0	10	20
Oxford C	Southampton B	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins B	Vassar	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Maryland C	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	NYU C	10	0	10	20
Cornell A	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
RIT	Penn State	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Georgetown	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	John Jay	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Swarthmore	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD A	10	0	10	20