pilgrimage - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Participants in this practice often wore badges marked with imagery related to their destination, like a scallop shell or the heads of the Three Kings. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this practice that in medieval Europe involved traveling to a holy site like Santiago de Compostela or Thomas Becket’s tomb in Canterbury.

ANSWER: pilgrimage

[10h] Pilgrims visited the Shrine of the Three Kings in this city’s cathedral. This German city’s archbishop was one of the three ecclesiastical electors of the Holy Roman Emperor, along with Mainz (“mines”) and Trier.

ANSWER: Cologne [or Köln]

[10m] A 12th-century codex advising pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela on how to avoid bad food and scams is attributed to a pope of this name. The first Borgia pope took this name and excommunicated Halley’s Comet.

ANSWER: Callixtus [accept Psuedo-Callixtus; accept Callixtus II; accept Callixtus III]

<CJ, European History>

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	100%	17%	50%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	24.00	100%	60%	80%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	89%	11%	67%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	25%	38%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	22.86	100%	57%	71%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	18.33	100%	25%	58%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	21.25	100%	63%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%

Data


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