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% |
Data
| Johns Hopkins B | Bard A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | Princeton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Lehigh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State B | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Rutgers C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |