Question
Tamás Pálffy (“toh-MOSH PAHL-fee”) confiscated the estates of these nobles during the “ten dark years” after the Magyarized Frankopan and Zrinski families led their namesake “conspiracy” over the Fourth Austro-Turkish War. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these landed aristocrats who sat in the upper house of the Hungarian Diet. The Tripartium upheld their nominal equality with lesser “seven plum tree” nobility.
ANSWER: magnates [or főúri or főurak; accept House of Magnates, Főrendiház, Camera Magnaților, or Magnatenhaus; accept “Magnate Conspiracy”]
[10m] Szlachta (“SHLOCK-tah”) magnates often intervened on behalf of this principality’s Movilă (“mo-VEE-luh”) hospodars and voivodes. Stephen the Great ruled this [emphasize] northeastern Danubian principality 200 years before the Ottoman Phanariote era.
ANSWER: Moldavia [or Moldova; or Principality of Moldavia; or Țara Moldovei; or Igemonía tís Moldavías]
[10e] Moldavians of this class embraced the “Latinist” francophilia of the Enlightenment-era “Transylvanian School.” Peter the Great abolished the duma of these Russian nobles.
ANSWER: boyars [or boierii; accept boyar duma or boyarskaya duma]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 14.50 | 95% | 35% | 15% |
Data
| Chicago D | Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Brown | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley B | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Illinois | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ottawa | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland | Stanford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Texas | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |