Headless Horseman - 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis

Question

One of the stories in Johann Musäus’s “Legends of Rübezahl” possibly influenced this character. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this character who supposedly used to be a Hessian soldier and “vanished in a flash of fire” in one story.

ANSWER: Headless Horseman [or Galloping Hessian; prompt on Brom Bones by asking “Brom Bones may be what other character?”]

[10e] Diedrich Knickerbocker is attributed as the source of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and this other Washington Irving story. A folktale about Peter Klaus inspired this story in which a man falls asleep for 20 years.

ANSWER: “Rip Van Winkle”

[10h] Irving’s time in Europe included working on a book about this person with the help of Alexander von Humboldt. Joel Barlow wrote an 1807 epic poem about this figure that invokes “Almighty Freedom” instead of the Muses.

ANSWER: Christopher Columbus [accept A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus or The Columbiad]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	33%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	71%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	6	18.33	67%	100%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	86%	29%	43%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	14.44	89%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	16.00	90%	50%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%

Data


Amherst A	Diamond Brandeis	10	10	10	30
Brown A	Brandeises Brew	0	10	0	10
A Brandeis Supreme	Boston University A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Yale C	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Northeastern A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Williams A	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Carabrandeis	10	10	0	20