Question
Alex Woolf located this culture’s heartland in the coastal realm where it carved bulls near a vitrified promontory fort at Burghead. Martin Carver excavated this culture’s monastery at Portmahomack, which was possibly raided under the king recorded on its Dupplin cross, Constantine. Ammianus Marcellinus blames this culture’s Verturiones tribe for raids with the Attacotti during a “barbarian conspiracy” defeated by Theodosius the Elder under Valentinian I. Fortriu ruled much of this culture from the 7th to 9th centuries, when it created symbol stones that display a mysterious sea beast and inscriptions in the [emphasize] imported Ogham (“AW-gum”) alphabet. Dál Riata (“dal REE-uh-duh”) may have merged with this culture under Kenneth MacAlpin to form the Kingdom of Alba. For 10 points, what supposedly “painted” Caledonians lived north of Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland? ■END■
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 ACF Nationals | 04/21/2024 | Y | 25 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 109.44 |