Packet 1: Bonus 12
Saint Sava died visiting an emperor in this city, which was dubbed a “New Constantinople” following the Fourth Crusade. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city home to “Baldwin’s Tower,” which supposedly housed a captured Latin Emperor. A revolt on Saint Demetrius’s feast day in 1185 founded an empire governed from this city.
ANSWER: Tarnovo (“TAR-no-vo”) [or Veliko Tarnovo or Turnovo or Tarnovgrad]
[10e] Tarnovo became the capital of these people’s second empire after their revolt in the 1180s. Basil II conquered this people’s first empire after the Battle of Kleidion (“CLAY-dee-on”).
ANSWER: Bulgars [accept bŭlgari; accept Bulgarians or (First/Second) Bulgarian Empire]
[10m] The Bulgarian church was briefly in communion with Rome until Ivan Asen II allied with this state, which Michael VIII ruled before retaking Constantinople. Like Epirus and Trebizond, this rump state was ruled by a Byzantine family after the Fourth Crusade.
ANSWER: Empire of Nicaea [or the Nicene Empire]
<Editors, European History> | A. Prelims 1 - Waterloo + Toronto A + Georgia Tech B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 15.00 | 96% | 55% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Brown | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago A | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Columbia A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell | Pittsburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgetown | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Johns Hopkins | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Maryland B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCF | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WashU | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 22 | 15.00 | 96% | 55% | 0% |