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 Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 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
| Cambridge A | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Durham A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Oxford B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bristol A | Oxford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Durham B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |