Round 14: Tossup 18

After immigrating to this kingdom, the Florentine architect Manetto Amanatini was ridiculed in “The Story of the Fat Woodcarver.” Pietro Ranzano was commissioned to write a chronicle of this kingdom by Beatrice of Naples, who married successive kings of it. This kingdom’s general Paul Kinizsi defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Breadfield with a mercenary army that adopted Hussite war wagon tactics. A king of this kingdom established the largest Renaissance library outside Italy, (10[1])which shared that king’s nickname derived from the Latin for “raven.” That founder of the Black Army, Matthias Corvinus, was crowned with this kingdom’s Holy Crown of St. Stephen. For 10 points, name this kingdom where Buda Castle was built across the Danube from Pest. ■END■

ANSWER: Kingdom of Hungary [or Magyar Királysá; accept Kingdom of Croatia; prompt on Bohemia by asking “what other kingdom did these kings rule?”]
<CJ, European History> | Packet P - Editors 2
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Jakob MeyersIndiana AIllinois A7410

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
FloridaMain Site1100%0%91.00
Great LakesMain Site1100%0%87.00
MidwestMain Site1100%0%74.00
NortheastMain Site1100%0%56.00