Mount Vesuvius - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet C: Tossup 18

A history of this location “in the age of Revolutions” by John Brewer details how visitors to (10[1])it made use of landmarks like the Hermitage of Camaldoli. One of the three annual liquefactions (-5[1])of the blood of St. Januarius (-5[1])commemorates his (-5[1])supposed intervention in a 1631 event at this location. (-5[1])This was the more northerly (-5[1])of two locations about which William Hamilton wrote to the Royal Society. Thomas (-5[1])Cook (10[1])and Son operated a cable railway at this location, the opening (10[2])of which was commemorated in the song (10[2])“Funiculì, (10[3]-5[1])Funiculà.” (10[7]-5[4])An event at this (-5[1])location (10[1]-5[1])destroyed (10[1])eighty-eight (10[1]-5[2])B-25 (10[4]-5[1])Mitchell bombers (10[1]-5[1])during (10[1]-5[2])the Allied occupation of Naples, (10[1])while a much (10[1])earlier (10[1])instance (-5[1])buried (10[2]0[1]-5[1])Herculaneum (10[7]-5[1])in (10[2])pyroclastic (10[5]-5[1])flow. (10[4])For 10 points, name this (10[1])volcano (10[2])whose eruption (10[2])of (10[2])79 (10[1])CE destroyed Pompeii. (10[1])■END■ (10[13]0[1])

ANSWER: Mount Vesuvius [or Vesuvio; prompt on Naples or Napoli until read; prompt on Pompeii until read]

<CJ, European History> | Packet C - Virginia Tech A, Waterloo A, UCSD A, UBC A

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Justin Wytmar	NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	16	10
Tom Morris-Jones	Birmingham	Warwick A	32	-5
Mehmet Tatoglu	Oxford A	Bristol	38	-5
John Marvin	Chicago A	Purdue B	40	-5
Omer Keskin	Edinburgh A	Oxford C	49	-5
Jackie Xu	Cornell A	Binghamton B	54	-5
Andy Yu	Maryland A	Columbia C	67	-5
Mitch McCullar	Penn State	Rochester	68	10
Athena Shadden	Texas A	Murray State A	79	10
Brendan Bethlehem	Cambridge A	Warwick B	79	10
Todd Maslyk	Michigan A	CWRU B	86	10
Megan Wang	Brown	Harvard B	86	10
Matthew Stasiw	Toronto C	UBC B	87	10
Dennis Yang	Michigan B	Ohio State B	87	10
Kai Madgwick	Manchester	Montpellier	87	-5
Charles Young	Columbia A	Vassar	87	10
Eve Fleisig	Berkeley A	Stanford B	88	-5
Seth Allen	McMaster A	Western C	88	-5
Thomas Tibbetts	Central Florida C	Florida A	88	-5
Jakob Meyers	Indiana A	Northwestern C	88	10
Akshay Seetharam	Claremont	Georgia Tech A	88	-5
Jack Lewis	Bruin	Georgia Tech D	88	10
Benedykt Chodzko-Zajko	Southampton A	Cardiff	88	10
Oscar O'Flanagan	Imperial A	Durham	88	10
Shlok Dev	LSE	Edinburgh B	88	10
Gus Redding	Imperial B	Southampton B	88	10
Xavier Bornhorst	Maryland B	John Jay	88	10
Victor Xu	Toronto G	Carleton University	92	-5
John Augustyn	Notre Dame B	Indiana C	93	10
Aditya Shivaswamy	Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	93	-5
Alexander Clarke	Yale	Brandeis A	94	10
Daniel Huang	Michigan C	Michigan State	95	-5
Luke Robitaille	MIT	Southern Connecticut State	95	-5
Graham Cope	Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	95	10
Nathaniel Hull	Berkeley C	Berkeley B	96	10
Jay Misuk	Western C	McMaster A	96	10
Sam McNamee	Notre Dame A	Indiana B	96	10
Britton Webster	Alabama A	Georgia Tech B	96	-5
John John Groger	WashU A	Tennessee A	96	10
Alice Ton Nu	Washington B	Iowa State	98	-5
Imran Abdul Rahman	UCL	Cambridge B	98	10
Jake Meltzer	CWRU A	Ohio State A	99	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Chicago D	99	-5
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt	NYU B	Catholic	99	-5
Eva Mandelbaum	Guelph	Western A	104	10
Olivia Kiser	Kentucky	Vanderbilt B	107	10
Jake Markus	Dartmouth B	Harvard A	108	10
Milan Fernandez	Brock	McGill A	109	-5
Amir Dolansky	Toronto E	Toronto B	110	10
Dexter Hine	Simon Fraser	Western B	110	-5
Matt Sheldon	Oxford B	City St. George's	110	10
Brandon Weiss	Columbia C	Maryland A	110	0
Andrew Zeng	Stanford A	Berkeley D	111	10
Brendan Bridle	Queen's	Toronto Metropolitan	111	10
Jacob Goodson	Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	111	10
Nolan Jones	Purdue A	Chicago B	111	10
Audrey Evans	Dartmouth A	Bowdoin A	111	10
William Barash	Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	111	-5
Sasha Fillbrandt	Washington A	Missouri B	111	10
Owen Steele	Swarthmore	NYU C	111	10
Khanh Nguyen	Florida C	Florida B	112	10
Asher Lyons	Maryland C	Georgetown	112	10
Colin Veevers	Ottawa	McMaster B	113	10
Arunn Sankar	Georgia Tech A	Claremont	113	10
Alina Moore	Tennessee B	Mississipi State	113	-5
Rafael Castro	Imperial C	Cambridge C	113	10
Derek Li	Cornell C	Binghamton A	113	10
Pranaav Senthilkumar	Cornell B	RIT	113	10
Prabhjot Chopra	Waterloo B	McGill B	114	10
Sam Konkel	Chicago C	Northwestern B	114	10
Braden Booth	Missouri A	Carleton College	114	10
Jaime Sneed	Sewanee	Louisville B	114	10
Shreyas Sinha	Texas B	Texas A&M A	119	10
Andrew Harms	Michigan State	Michigan C	120	10
Jack Casey	Illinois B	Illinois C	120	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida A	Central Florida C	122	10
Ted Warner	Bristol	Oxford A	122	10
Anh Khoa Tran	Central Florida A	Central Florida B	123	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue B	Chicago A	123	10
Tianyu Xu	Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	124	10
Dillon George	Catholic	NYU B	127	10
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Berkeley A	128	10
Galen Mueller	McGill A	Brock	128	10
Stuart Chandler-Baas	Carleton University	Toronto G	128	10
Yash Modi	Western B	Simon Fraser	128	10
Mats Miller	Chicago D	Illinois A	128	10
Nate Kodama	Bowdoin B	Brandeis B	128	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State	MIT	128	10
Merrick Hill	Iowa State	Washington B	128	10
Sawyer Smith	Mississipi State	Tennessee B	128	10
Mia Clark-Webb	Oxford C	Edinburgh A	128	10
Krishna Girish	Montpellier	Manchester	128	0
Antoni Kluzowski	Warwick A	Birmingham	128	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	128	10
Violet Page	Binghamton B	Cornell A	128	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	Conv. %	Neg %	Avg. Buzz
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	100%	33%	111.67
Canada	Main Site	✓	10	100%	40%	111.90
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	100%	33%	119.00
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	100%	20%	100.60
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	100%	25%	109.13
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	100%	33%	109.17
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	100%	50%	116.50
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	0%	99.00
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	100%	29%	107.43
UK	Main Site	✓	12	92%	33%	102.73
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	88%	38%	95.57
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	100%	25%	105.50