Henry - 2025 ACF Fall

Tossup

An English king with this name welcomed the scholar Polydore Vergil at his court. A king with this name granted letters patent to John Cabot for his expedition to (10[1])America. (-5[1])A prince (10[1]-5[1])with this name was later (-5[1])said to have founded the School (10[1])of Sagres (10[1])(“SAG-rish”), and directed the development of the caravel. (10[5])An (10[1])English (10[1])explorer (10[1])with this first name (10[4]-5[1])sailed on the (10[1])Discovery (10[2])and reached the (10[1])large (-5[1])saltwater bay in Canada that now bears (10[1])his (-5[1])last (10[1]-5[1])name. (10[1]-5[1])A prince (10[1])with this name (10[1])sponsored early Portuguese (-5[1])exploration (-5[1])of Africa’s Atlantic (10[1])coast, (10[1])for which he (-5[1])was later (10[1])called “the Navigator.” For 10 (10[1])points, what was the name of England’s first two Tudor kings (10[1])and an explorer surnamed Hudson? ■END■ (10[6]0[3])

ANSWER: Henry [accept Henrique or Henry the Navigator or Henry VII or Henry Hudson]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	George Mason A	28	10
Suhaan Pastakia	Maryland C	Rutgers A	29	-5
Asher Lyons	Maryland B	Maryland A	31	-5
Luc Vulliez	Amherst A	Dartmouth A	31	10
Chris Wang	Toronto B	McMaster A	36	-5
Rae Meyers	Arizona State A	Alberta A	42	10
David Ciardella	Vermont B	Tufts A	44	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	WashU Grizzlers	51	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Dartmouth B	51	10
Mohamed Algraiw	MIT A	Brandeis Mozart	51	10
Christopher Bradley	Southern Connecticut State University A	Tufts C	51	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Washington Pink	51	10
Salil Jain	Williams B	Brown B	52	10
Ryan Zhang	Washington State	British Columbia A	53	10
Joe O'Connor	George Mason B	Rutgers D	54	10
Gavin Chen	Vassar A	Johns Hopkins	58	10
Daniel Abrams	Rutgers B	NYU B	58	10
Alex Grigoriades	Lehigh A	Princeton	58	10
Michael Ai	Williams A	Brown A	58	10
Oliver Morten	Cardiff	Cambridge B	58	-5
Ben Mowery	Vermont A	UConn A	61	10
Jack Marguiles	Stony Brook	Penn	62	10
Alex Hestermann	Washington Sockeye	Arizona State B	62	10
Vishnu Sharma	Texas	Washington Chum	65	10
Stephen Donoghue	Sheffield B	Edinburgh A	66	-5
David Zaslavsky	Brandeis Bach	Tufts B	73	10
Will Hoover	RIT A	Cornell D	74	-5
Nico Lotto	Vassar B	Rutgers C	75	-5
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	British Columbia B	75	10
Abbi Tesreau	George Mason C	Rowan	76	10
Anya Srinivasan	Washington Atlantic	Alberta B	76	-5
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Boston University B	78	10
Darren Kellis	Vanderbilt A	Chipola College	81	10
Elias Lowrey	Lehigh B	Columbia A	84	-5
Akif Ismail	Williams C	MIT B	85	-5
Carter Yott	McMaster A	Toronto B	88	10
Isabella DePrimo	Washington Chinook	Boise State	89	10
Yiwei Jiang	NYU C	Columbia B	92	-5
Alice Ton Nu	Washington Coho	Washington Masu	94	10
Kaushik Jayaprabha	Dartmouth C	Harvard	99	10
Daniel Hobba	Cambridge B	Cardiff	110	10
Cooper Morris	Columbia B	NYU C	116	0
Mackenzie Tott	Columbia A	Lehigh B	116	0
Gannon Smith	Maryland A	Maryland B	116	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Maryland C	116	10
Aryan Malhotra	Rutgers C	Vassar B	116	0
Kyle Hart	MIT B	Williams C	116	10
Luke Simon	Alberta B	Washington Atlantic	116	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Sheffield B	116	10
Solomon Blecher	Cornell D	RIT A	116	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	1	100%	100%	116.00
UK (South)	UK	1	100%	100%	110.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	1	100%	100%	88.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	75%	42%	69.56
Midwest	US	1	100%	0%	51.00
Northeast	US	12	100%	8%	63.75
Pacific	US	9	100%	11%	71.89
Southeast	US	1	100%	0%	81.00
Upstate NY	US	1	100%	100%	116.00