Padua - 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis

Question

This city contains the world’s oldest academic botanical garden, which the Venetian Republic founded in 1545. For 10 points each,

[10h] Name this city home to the world’s fifth-oldest surviving university. This city’s student nations included the cismontanes and ultramontanes, while its anatomists included Andreas Vesalius.

ANSWER: Padua [or Padova; or Padoa; or Paoa; accept University of Padua; accept Botanical Garden of Padova]

[10m] Bettisia Gozzadini earned a degree in this field from Italy’s oldest university, the University of Bologna. Ulpian’s Digest and a set of commentaries by William Blackstone were both studied in this field.

ANSWER: law [accept medieval Roman law; accept common law; accept Commentaries on the Laws of England; accept answers mentioning legal theory or jurisprudence or judicial decisions]

[10e] This man who taught at Padua argued for a heliocentric theory of the universe. This Italian astronomer dropped weights from the Tower of Pisa to show that objects fall with the same acceleration.

ANSWER: Galileo Galilei [or Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei; accept Galileo affair]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%

Data


Yale A	Brandeises Brew	0	10	10	20
Yale B	Boston University A	0	10	10	20