Question
Réné Descartes (“DAY-cart”) died in this city shortly after an unsuccessful arrangement tutoring a ruler there. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this capital city, whose 17th-century rulers heavily funded the nearby university of Uppsala. The Vasa dynasty ruled from this city.
ANSWER: Stockholm
[10h] This Queen of Sweden heavily funded arts and philosophy in Sweden, and invited Descartes to teach in Stockholm. This so-called “Minerva of the North” was the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus.
ANSWER: Queen Christina of Sweden
[10e] Christina gained the right to establish academies and universities freely by the Peace of Westphalia, which ended this war. Gustavus Adolphus died fighting in this major European conflict, which lasted from 1618 to 1648.
ANSWER: Thirty Years’ War
<History - European History>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 71% | 43% |
Data
| Columbia B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lehigh | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Swarthmore A | NYU C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Princeton | University of Delaware B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Fordham | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Swarthmore B | University of Delaware A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |