Question
During this conflict, the protagonist of a novel gives speeches using the pseudonym “Omnes Omnibus” before joining a commedia dell’arte group. In a novel primarily set during this conflict, the note “Drive him fast to his tomb” is left with a knife stabbed into a man’s heart while he slept in his mansion. This conflict provides the backdrop for Rafael Sabatini’s novel Scaramouche. During this conflict, a man kisses a fainted woman’s forehead and whispers, “A life you love.” Marguerite learns that her husband Percy Blakeney saves people during this conflict in Baroness Orczy’s (“ORT-see’s”) novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. In this conflict, people whose names are knitted by Madame Defarge are ordered to be executed. For 10 points, Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is set during what conflict in which Sydney Carton is guillotined? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Caleb Hines (DII) | Liberty B (DII) | Virginia B (UG) | 90 | 10 |
Giovanni Mazzeo (DII) | Virginia A (UG) | Maryland A (Grad) | 91 | 10 |
Jonathan Shauf (UG) | UNC B (UG) | UNC A (Grad) | 93 | 10 |
Patrick Torre (DII) | Maryland C (DII) | William & Mary A (UG) | 93 | 10 |
Perry O'Connor (Grad) | Liberty A (Grad) | UNC C (UG) | 97 | 10 |
Miller Doer (DII) | Liberty C (DII) | JMU A (UG) | 113 | 10 |
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII) | Duke A (UG) | Virginia C (UG) | 118 | 10 |
Jacob Martin (UG) | Maryland B (UG) | GWU A (UG) | 123 | 10 |
Vedang Singhal (DII) | UNC D (DII) | GWU B (Grad) | 126 | 10 |
Logan Mitchell (UG) | JMU B (UG) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 131 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.67 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 107.50 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 100% | 134.00 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.00 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.33 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 90.20 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.75 |
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 98.20 |