Packet 7: Bonus 16
A speech in De expugnatione (“day ex-poog-na-tee-OH-nay”) from this conflict’s Reconquista theater declares that “sin is not in waging war but in waging war for the sake of plunder.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this unsuccessful crusade that involved Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine. En route to the Holy Land, this crusade assisted Afonso I of Portugal at the 1147 Siege of Lisbon.
ANSWER: Second Crusade
[10h] Afonso I came to power after defeating this relative of his at São Mamede (“ma-MED-eh”). Paschal II’s bull Fratrum Nostrum has led some to consider this person the first monarch of Portugal.
ANSWER: Theresa of Portugal [or Teresa or Tareja or Tareixa or Theresia]
[10m] In 1148, the Siege of Tortosa during the Second Crusade was recorded by Caffaro di Rustico of this city. This home city of the Spinola family later defeated Pisa at the Battle of Meloria.
ANSWER: Genoa [or Repúbrica de Zêna or Repubblica di Genova or Res Publica Ianuensis]
<Editors, European History> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 9.47 | 47% | 47% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Texas | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Cambridge | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Indiana | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Stanford B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| MIT | Cornell | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Minnesota | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Northwestern B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Ohio State | Swarthmore | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Stanford A | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Penn State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UCF | British Columbia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| UCLA | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Virginia | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 19 | 9.47 | 47% | 47% | 0% |