Question
Turanists celebrate these people’s “fraternity” with Turkic peoples at the “Great Kurultáj (“koo-rool-TYE”)” in a country where hoaxers claimed to discover their ruler’s tomb in 2014. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these people who were viewed as Székely (“SAY-kay”) ancestors by Simon of Kéza. The Chronicon Gothanum calls a ruler of these people the “scourge of god.”
ANSWER: Huns [or Hunni or Ounnoi or Kuns; accept Attila the Hun or variants like Etele the Hun; accept Hunnic Empire] (The Great Kurultáj is held in Hungary.)
[10h] Before Huns sacked it in 452, this “second Rome” was one of the world’s largest cities. Friulian nationalists celebrate a medieval patriarchate in this city, which broke with Rome over the Three Chapters under the Lombards.
ANSWER: Aquileia (“ACK-wee-LAY-uh”) [or Aquilee, Olee, Olea, or Oglej; accept Sack of Aquileia; accept Patriarchate of Aquileia, Patriarcato di Aquileia, Patriarchæ Aquileiensis, Patriarcjât di Aquilee, Patriarcal de Aquileja, Patriarchal State of Aquileia, or Principato patriarcale di Aquileia]
[10m] Maximinus Thrax was killed during a 238 CE siege of Aquileia (“ACK-wee-LAY-uh”) a few years after he took the title “Germanicus Maximus” for campaigns against these people, who inspired an exonym of Germany.
ANSWER: Alamanni [or Alemanni; prompt on Allemagne, Alemannia, Alemania, alemán, or variants]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 20 | 19.00 | 100% | 75% | 15% |
Data
| Brown | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana | Florida | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | NYU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley A | North Carolina B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |