Question
This group represented the second Japanese visit to Europe, coming after a man named Bernardo 30 years prior. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Japanese embassy, primarily composed of four teenagers, that toured Europe in the 1580s under the direction of Itō Mancio and Alessandro Valignano (“vahl-in-YAH-noh”). This embassy introduced the printing press to Japan on its return.
ANSWER: Tenshō embassy [or Tenshō shōnen shisetsu embassy; or Tenshō boys’ embassy]
[10e] Valignano was a member of this Catholic order founded by the author of the Spiritual Exercises. Francis Xavier, a member of this order, helped lead Catholic evangelization in Japan.
ANSWER: Jesuit Order [or Jesuits; or Society of Jesus; or Societas Iesu; prompt on SJ]
[10m] The Tenshō embassy met this pope just before his death and attended Sixtus V’s subsequent coronation. This pope implemented a recommendation from the astronomers Aloysius Lilius and Christopher Clavius via the bull Inter gravissimas.
ANSWER: Gregory XIII (“the thirteenth”) [or Ugo Boncompagni; or Gregorio XIII; or Gregorius XII; Iprompt on Gregory or Gregorian calendar]
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Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
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Brown A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Chicago B | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Columbia A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Columbia B | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Cornell A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Cornell B | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Florida A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Florida B | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Georgia Tech B | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Harvard A | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Houston A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Illinois A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Iowa State A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
MIT A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
McGill A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
NYU A | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northwestern A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Purdue A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Rutgers A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Stanford A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UC Berkeley A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UC Berkeley B | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
WUSTL B | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |