Boudica - 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida

Question

This ruler’s conquests left a layer of red ash visible in the archeological record known as her namesake “destruction horizon.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this queen of the Iceni who led a 61 CE revolt against Roman rule in Britain.

ANSWER: Boudica [or Boudicca or Buddug or Boadicea or Boudicea]

[10m] Gaius Suetonius Paulinus defeated Boudica’s revolt in a battle traditionally thought to have been located on this major Roman street, which ran through London and continued to the northwest.

ANSWER: Watling Street

[10h] According to Cassius Dio, Boudica’s revolt was sparked by forced loans imposed by this Roman official. Tacitus claimed that Rome was to be “made over to” this person in a conspiracy betrayed by the freedman Milichus.

ANSWER: Seneca the Younger [or Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger] (The conspiracy is the Pisonian conspiracy.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	60%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	19.09	100%	91%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	11.00	80%	30%	0%

Data


UF E	UCF A	0	10	10
UF D	UCF B	10	0	10
UF B	Florida State University A	10	10	20
UF A	UF C	10	10	20
UF F	Florida Tech B	0	0	0