Packet 2: Bonus 10
The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin may have been inspired by children who travelled from Erfurt to Arnstadt while performing this activity. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity that may have been caused by ergot poisoning during a 1518 event in Strasbourg.
ANSWER: dancing [or dance; or dancing mania or dancing plague; accept choreomania]
[10e] Alternative theories for the cause of dancing mania argue that they were caused by residual stress from this event. Doctors did not actually wear a costume with a beak during this 14th century epidemic.
ANSWER: the Black Death [or Black Plague, or bubonic plague; prompt on plague]
[10m] Ergot poisoning was often blamed for causing mass hysteria during these events. Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum served as a manual for these events.
ANSWER: witch trials [accept witch hunts; prompt on trials or hunts]
<History - European, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 02
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 23.78 | 98% | 58% | 82% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 25.00 | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 67% | 100% | 67% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 60% | 80% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 25% | 75% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 20% | 80% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 27.50 | 100% | 75% | 100% |