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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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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago ARutgers0101020EM
Chicago BMinnesota0101020EM
Columbia ANorth Carolina A10101030HEM
Cornell ATexas0000
Georgia StateYale0101020EM
Georgia TechJohns Hopkins010010E
HarvardToronto B0101020EM
Illinois AIndiana010010E
Illinois BRIT010010E
LSEBritish Columbia0101020EM
MarylandColumbia B0101020EM
MichiganVirginia010010E
NYUFlorida10101030HEM
North Carolina BOhio State1010020HE
OttawaWaterloo B0101020EM
Toronto AStanford0101020EM
Toronto CMIT010010E
UC Berkeley AWaterloo A0101020EM
UC Berkeley BArizona State0101020EM
UCFCornell B0101020EM
VanderbiltWinona State0101020EM
Virginia TechIowa State0101020EM
WUSTL ANorthwestern10101030HEM
WUSTL BPenn State0101020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2418.3396%71%17%