Packet 6: Bonus 6

Answer the following about incorrect predictions based on the Book of Revelation in early modern Britain, for 10 points each.
[10e] Some Fifth Monarchists predicted that the Apocalypse would happen in this year due to its link to the number of the beast. This year also saw the Great Fire of London.
ANSWER: 1666 [prompt on ’66]
[10m] In the 1590s, this Scottish scholar calculated from Revelation that the Apocalypse would happen either in 1688 or in 1700. This scholar introduced a multiplication technique called his namesake “bones.”
ANSWER: John Napier of Merchiston [or Ioannes Neper; accept Napier’s rods or Napier’s bones]
[10h] This 18th-century English bishop drew on Revelation to argue Protestantism would cease to exist in 1825, a belief later spread by Rockites and itinerant “prophecy men” in 1820s Ireland. You may give either his real name or his Italian pseudonym.
ANSWER: Charles Walmesley [or Pastorini or Pastorino]
<Editors, European History> | F. Prelims 6 - British Columbia + Texas + North Carolina

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BrownNorthwestern B100010E
BruinIllinois B100010E
CambridgeUC Berkeley A1010020EM
Chicago ASwarthmore100010E
Columbia BWaterloo100010E
GeorgetownWashU100010E
Georgia Tech BPurdue100010E
Georgia Tech CStanford A100010E
HarvardGeorgia Tech A1010020EM
Illinois AJohns Hopkins100010E
IndianaCornell1010020EM
MITNYU B100010E
MinnesotaUCLA1010020EM
Northwestern AChicago B1010020EM
Penn StateMaryland B100010E
RutgersColumbia A100010E
Toronto AVirginia Tech1010020EM
Toronto BMichigan100010E
UC Berkeley BNYU A1010020EM
UCFVirginia100010E
VanderbiltStanford B100010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2113.33100%33%0%