Question

With the exception of Ugnas, bishops in this people’s kingdom protested high taxes for the fisc, citing a 6th-century church council where the filioque (“fill-ee-OH-kway”) clause was codified in Western Christianity. Coins from this people’s mint at Senimure-Semure were confused with ones from Sabaria, which was nested between the Suebi and this people’s territory. Sapphires from Sri Lanka can be found on the votive crown for a (10[1])king of this people, (-5[1])Recceswinth (10[1]-5[1])(“RECK-uh-swinth”). The Roman general Flavius Aetius (-5[1])fought alongside a king of this people against Attila at the (10[1])Battle of Châlons (“sha-LON”). The 711 (-5[1])Battle of Guadalete ended with the death of this people’s king Roderic to Tariq ibn Ziyad during an Umayyad invasion. For 10 points, what Germanic tribe (10[1])governed (10[1])early Medieval Spain and led a 410 sack of Rome under Alaric? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Visigoths [or Visigothi or Wisigothi or Vesi or Visi or Wesi or Wisi; accept Kingdom of the Visigoths or Visigothic Kingdom or Visigothic Spain; prompt on Goths or Kingdom of the Goths or Regnum Gothum; reject “Ostrogoths”] (The church council is the Third Council of Toledo.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ivonne ZhouPenn AColumbia B6510
Carter McLeanPrinceton APenn A69-5
Teigue KellyPenn State AJohns Hopkins B70-5
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia BRutgers C7010
Charles YoungColumbia ARowan A75-5
Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins APenn B8610
Chase BarrickLehigh ABard A91-5
Thomas FlexerPenn State BHaverford A11710
Alex WongRutgers APenn B11810
Hazel DePreist-SullivanBard ALehigh A13010
Rahul Rao-PothurajuRowan AColumbia A13110
Elizabeth JewlalJohns Hopkins BPenn State A13110
Danny HanPenn APrinceton A13110