Bonus
Gustavus Adolphus dabbled with using a light artillery piece made of this material, eventually abandoning it for a demi-culverin (“demi-CULL-vuh-rin”) designed by Lennart Torstensson. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this material, later used by the Scots to make cannons during the English Civil War.
ANSWER: leather [accept leather cannon; prompt on animal hide or animal skin]
[10e] One of the few remaining leather cannons is housed in Malta’s Heritage Museum, and was purchased by this crusading order named for giving medical care to pilgrims.
ANSWER: Knights Hospitaller [or Hospitallers; or Knights of Saint John; or Order of Saint John; or Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem]
[10m] Leather cannons were also noted among the inventory of colonists in this region and may have been used to defend Fort St. Andrew. The financier William Paterson heavily promoted a scheme in this region.
ANSWER: Darién Gap [accept Darién scheme; prompt on Isthmus of Panama, Central America, or Latin America]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Cornell A | Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia State | Yale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| LSE | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Michigan | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU | Florida | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| North Carolina B | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Ottawa | Waterloo B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto C | MIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | Waterloo A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Vanderbilt | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Virginia Tech | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WUSTL A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| WUSTL B | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 18.33 | 96% | 71% | 17% |