Bruges - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

This city’s “Blind Donkey Alley” is apocryphally named for an ass who failed to stop a neighboring city from stealing the belfry’s golden dragon statue in 1382. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city whose militia supposedly massacred French soldiers who could not pronounce a phrase meaning “shield and friend,” triggering the Battle of the Golden Spurs.

ANSWER: Bruges (“broozh”) [or Brugge] (The neighboring city is Ghent.)

[10e] Bruges’s Gruuthuse (“HROOT-hoo-suh”) family created the “White Bear” society devoted to this activity. Henry II died from injuries suffered during this activity during celebrations for the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.

ANSWER: jousting [accept tournaments, melées, lancing, spearing, haslitudes, or word forms or equivalents; accept tournament society or jousting society; prompt on games, sports, duels, combat, or equivalents of any]

[10h] In 1323, the Burgomaster of Bruges joined a tax revolt led by Nicolaas Zannekin, but was killed at a battle outside of this town. Philippe of Orléans won a 1677 battle near this town in the Franco-Dutch War.

ANSWER: Cassel [accept Battle of Cassel; accept Mont Cassel or Kasselberg or Mont-Cassel]

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	22	10.45	73%	32%	0%

Data


Chicago A	Arizona State	10	10	20
Waterloo	Berkeley A	10	10	20
Brown	Ottawa	10	10	20
Columbia B	Chicago D	10	10	20
Cornell B	Georgia Tech	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins	Duke	0	0	0
Florida	North Carolina A	0	10	10
Harvard	Chicago B	10	0	10
Illinois	Chicago C	0	0	0
Indiana	Iowa State	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Kentucky	0	0	0
Maryland	Truman State	0	10	10
McGill	Minnesota A	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Minnesota B	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Toronto B	0	10	10
Yale B	Northwestern	0	10	10
Stanford	Purdue	10	10	20
NYU	Rutgers	0	0	0
Vanderbilt	Penn	0	10	10
Toronto A	Virginia	0	10	10
Texas	WUSTL B	0	0	0
Yale A	South Carolina	10	10	20