Welsh dragon - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In Nennius’s History of the Britons, a fight between two of these creatures serves as a metaphor for Celtic resistance to the Saxon invasion. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this creature depicted on Henry Tudor’s banners at the Battle of Bosworth Field as a reference to the 7th-century king of Gwynedd Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon (“GWIN-eth cad-WA-la-der ap cad-WA-lon”).

ANSWER: Welsh dragon [or ddraig Cymraeg (“thraig cum-raig”); or ddraig goch (“goh”); accept red dragon; accept white dragon; accept ddraig gwyn]

[10e] According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, this magician at the court of King Arthur prophesied that Cadwaladr would someday return to Britain to restore the descendants of Brutus of Troy to the throne.

ANSWER: Merlinus Ambrosius [accept Myrddin Wyllt (“MER-thin wilt”)]

[10h] Description acceptable. Another Tudor appropriation of legendary Welsh history argued that Brutus, Arthur, and Prince Madoc of Gwynedd had taken this action centuries earlier. Madoc supposedly did this to avoid a dispute between his siblings.

ANSWER: sailing to the Americas [accept traveling to the Americas or equivalents; accept discovering or conquering or colonizing the Americas; accept New World or Western Hemisphere in place of “the Americas”; accept crossing the Atlantic or equivalents; prompt on crossing the ocean by asking “which ocean?”; prompt on sailing away or equivalents by asking “to where?”]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	88%	63%	25%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	McGill A	10	10	0	20
McMaster A	McGill B	0	10	0	10
Carleton University	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
Western C	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Guelph	10	10	0	20
UBC B	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	Western A	10	10	0	20
Central Florida C	Central Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida B	Central Florida B	10	10	0	20
Florida C	Florida A	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Duke	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	VCU	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	Liberty C	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	NC State A	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	James Madison B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	NC State B	0	10	0	10
Virginia	South Carolina A	0	10	10	20
James Madison A	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
William and Mary	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan State	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	CWRU A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Indiana C	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Chicago E	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Northwestern D	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Waterloo A	Toronto C	0	10	0	10
Brown	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Bowdoin B	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	MIT	10	10	0	20
Yale	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Carleton College	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Washington A	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Bruin	Georgia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Tennessee B	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Mississipi State	WashU B	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Alabama B	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh A	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	10	0	20
Cardiff	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Montpellier	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Oxford C	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Catholic	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	John Jay	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Vassar	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	Penn State	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
RIT	Cornell C	10	10	0	20
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10