Malbork Castle - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Bohemian mercenaries agreed to sell this castle to Casimir IV during the Thirteen Years’ War. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this massive Brick Gothic castle in Pomerania, the namesake of a city that was the seat of the Teutonic Knights until 1457.

ANSWER: Malbork Castle [accept Marienburg Castle; accept Ordensburg Marienburg]

[10e] Malbork’s position on the Vistula River allowed the Teutonic state to tax passing ships and control the trade in this good. This fossilized tree resin was traded from the Baltic to the Mediterranean via a medieval “road.”

ANSWER: amber

[10m] After the loss of Malbork, the reduced Teutonic state moved its capital to this city, a member of the Hanseatic League and hub of the amber trade. This city’s university was founded by its later ruler Duke Albert of Prussia.

ANSWER: Königsberg [accept Kaliningrad]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	18.00	100%	70%	10%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	88%	38%	25%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	92%	33%	42%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

Data


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