Packet 9: Bonus 4

Under torture, Margareta Kuljanka (“kul-YAN-ka”) described an internal hierarchy in a group of these people and accused 28 other women before being burned in 1733. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify these people. Executions for supposedly being these people proliferated in Croatia after the publication of Malleus Maleficarum and continued until the mid-18th century.
ANSWER: witches [or people accused of witchcraft or clear equivalents; accept sorceresses or clear equivalents]
[10m] This statesman examined the herbalist Magda Logomer, whose 1757 acquittal ended Croatian witch trials. A report by this physician of Maria Theresa led to the prohibition of anti-vampire superstitious practices.
ANSWER: Gerard van Swieten (“SVEE-tun”) [reject “Gottfried van Swieten”]
[10h] This ruler’s 1656 Praxis Criminalis judicial regulations gave precedent to Maria Theresa’s abolition of torture in Croatia. This Holy Roman Emperor saw the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
ANSWER: Ferdinand III [accept Ferdinand Ernst or Ferdinand Ernest; prompt on Ferdinand]
<Editors, European History> | R. Playoffs 9 (Editors 9)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2415.83100%38%21%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownIllinois B10101030EMH
BruinVirginia1010020EM
CambridgeToronto B100010E
Chicago BNorth Carolina100010E
Columbia AChicago A10101030EMH
CornellPurdue100010E
GeorgetownUCF100010E
HarvardIndiana10101030EMH
Illinois AGeorgia Tech C1010020EM
Maryland AVirginia Tech1001020EH
Maryland BNorthwestern B100010E
MichiganJohns Hopkins100010E
MinnesotaVanderbilt100010E
Northwestern ANYU A100010E
Ohio StateColumbia B100010E
Penn StateNYU B1010020EM
RutgersGeorgia Tech A100010E
Stanford AUC Berkeley A1010020EM
Stanford BGeorgia Tech B100010E
TexasMIT1010020EM
UC Berkeley BToronto A1010020EM
UCLAPittsburgh100010E
WashUBritish Columbia1001020EH
WaterlooSwarthmore100010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2415.83100%38%21%