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King David I of Scotland set aside Melrose Abbey for this order’s use. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this order partly founded by the English-born man Stephen Harding. This monastic order, whose monks wore white robes, included a man who had a vision of the Virgin Mary lactating into his mouth.
ANSWER: Cistercian (“sis-TER-shuns”) order [or Sacer Ordo Cisterciensis; prompt on Cîteaux by asking “What order did that develop into?”; reject “Benedictine(s)”] (The vision came to St. Bernard of Clairvaux.)
[10e] Cistercians came to Britain in this century, during which David I supported Empress Matilda over Stephen of Blois (“blwah”) in The Anarchy. This was the century AD after the one in which the Norman conquest occurred.
ANSWER: 12th century AD [or 12th century CE; or 1100s]
[10h] Walter Espec patronized this Cistercian abbey founded in 1132 in the north York moors. This place’s second abbot, Aelred (“AL-red”), wrote a biography of David I and a treatise on “spiritual friendship” sometimes read as condoning homosexual love.
ANSWER: Rievaulx (“ree-VOH”) [accept St. Aelred of Rievaulx]
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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaUC Berkeley B010010E
Chicago BTexas010010E
Cornell AIowa State10101030MEH
Cornell BMaryland010010E
FloridaArizona State010010E
Illinois ANorthwestern1010020ME
Illinois BNorth Carolina B0000
Johns HopkinsToronto B010010E
MITGeorgia Tech010010E
MichiganVanderbilt010010E
MinnesotaHarvard010010E
NYUGeorgia State010010E
North Carolina AChicago A1010020ME
RITUCF010010E
StanfordColumbia A1010020ME
Toronto AIndiana1010020ME
Toronto CVirginia Tech1010020ME
UC Berkeley ARutgers1010020ME
VirginiaColumbia B010010E
WUSTL AWaterloo A1010020ME
WUSTL BLSE1010020ME
Waterloo BPenn State010010E
Winona StateOhio State010010E
YaleOttawa010010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2413.7596%38%4%