Packet 7: Bonus 5
The waterlogged soil under this city preserved the first beresta birch bark manuscripts unearthed in Russia, suggesting an unusually high rate of literacy. For 10 points each:
[10e] The Varangian chieftain Rurik legendarily founded what city, the capital of a republic that ruled northern Russia during the medieval era?
ANSWER: Veliky Novgorod [reject “Nizhny Novgorod”]
[10h] An unusually famous set of birch bark manuscripts were written by this Novgorodian boy, who drew himself riding a horse and killing a man who may be his teacher in doodles that he presumably wrote in school.
ANSWER: Onfim [or Anthemius]
[10m] While scrolls from Novgorod mention Rurik, his name is absent from copies of this document like the Laurentian Codex. This document is the chief source for the early history of the Kievan Rus’.
ANSWER: Primary Chronicle [or the Russian Primary Chronicle; accept Tale of Bygone Years; accept Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ lětŭ or pervichnaya letopis; accept Nestor’s Chronicle or the Chronicle of Nestor]
<EC, European History> | NAFTA-Packet-7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 21.43 | 86% | 86% | 43% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lex | St. Marx | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EH |
| Maybe Ever | W&L+Friend | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | WashU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| [Redacted] | four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✕ | 2 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 67% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 60% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✕ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 27.50 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✕ | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✕ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |