Question

A leader of these people built himself a funeral pyre out of saddles in the middle of a battle which saw the death of Laudaricus. These people attacked Castra Constantias after the Byzantine Empire reneged on the Treaty of Margus. The Visigothic king Theodoric allied with Flavius Aetius’ Romans to defeat these people at the (10[1])Battle (10[1])of the Catalaunian (10[1])Plains. The historian Priscus (10[1])details how a leader of these people died on his wedding night of a nosebleed. (10[1])A leader of these people (10[1])was convinced to end his invasion of Italy by Pope Leo the Great. For 10 points, name these people led by the so-called “scourge of god,” (10[1])Attila. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Huns [accept Attila the Hun]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Elijah Scheinson (UG)Columbia A (UG)Maryland A (DII)5410
Vinayak Singh BhadoriyaNYU BLehigh A (UG)5510
Saif Virani (UG)Fordham ANYU A (UG)5810
Albert Zeng (DII)Penn B (DII)Columbia J (DII)6210
Ben Spirtas (DII)Maryland B (DII)Rutgers B7710
Sam Millenbach (DII)Rowan A (DII)Princeton A (UG)8210
Vedh Ramesh (DII)Penn A (DII)Rutgers A (UG)10810
Nolan Keating (DII)Lehigh B (DII)Bard A (UG)10910

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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY1100%0%0%93.00
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2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY8100%0%0%75.63
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%22%68.00