World History Tourney of Champs - Round 1 Results

Round 1 Results

Buddha over Confucius - A battle of 4's, Four Noble Truths win over the Si Shu (Four Books)

Alexander the Great over Genghis Khan - In an offensive showdown, Alexander remains undefeated

Charlemagne over William the Conqueror - The "Father of Europe" advances easily.

Pope John XXIII over Pope Urban II - Urban's hopes of meeting the leader of Islam are dashed

Elizabeth I over Bad King John - No stranger to defeat, King John loses yet again

Marco Polo over Ibn Battuta - Ibn covered some 73k miles. In basketball, traveling is a bad thing though.

The Prophet Muhammad over Julius Caesar - "Et tu Muhammad?"

Vasco da Gama over Zheng He - Says Vasco, "I don't even know who He is."

Johannes Gutenberg over Bill Gates - Gates couldn't handle Gutenberg's full court Press.

Christopher Columbus over Ferdinand Magellan - Having a holiday doesn't hurt it seems

Hernan Cortes over Pizarro - DYK?: Pizarro was second cousin once removed to Hernán Cortés!

Leonardo da Vinci over Michelangelo - Da Vinci is "the most diversely talented person ever to have lived."

Martin Luther over John Calvin - Luter takes advantage of Gutenberg's press, puts up 95.

Galileo over Copernicus - "The big yellow one is the Sun!" is all Copernicus can say afterwards.

Gandhi over Akbar the Great - Gandhi, snubbed by the Nobel Committee 5 times, peacefully advances.

Peter the Great over Louis XIV - "The Bronze Horseman" gallops past "The Sun King" to round 2.

Albert Einstein over Isaac Newton - Smooth move Einstein!

John Locke over Montesquieu - Marx and Hobbes watch with disdain from the bleachers

Rousseau over Robespierre - Being enlightened, neither was looking forward to a 2nd round matchup with Jesus.

Jesus of Nazareth over The Apostle Paul - Jesus, only profile to get more than 90% of vote in Round 1.

Abraham Lincoln over George Washington - Face time on the dollar bill doesn't help George. upset.

Beethoven over Mozart - Mozart walks away as the pep band plays the canon "Leck mich im Arsch".

Florence Nightingale over Mary Wollstonecraft - DYK?: Wollstonecraft's daughter wrote Frankenstein.

Hitler over Napoleon - Napoleon tries to win one-handed, comes up short.

Fidel Castro over Simon Bolivar - DYK?: Castro is among the world's richest people (est net worth $900 million).

Karl Marx over Lenin - Groucho, Richard, Skid, and the entire check group rooted loudly from the stands.

Charles Darwin over Sigmund Freud - Says Freud, "I just couldn't get in his head."

Louis Pasteur over Marie Curie - In celebration, a carton of milk is dumped on him.

Thomas Edison over Alexander Graham Bell - Edison tuants, "Here's a quarter, call someone who cares."

Henry Ford over Orville and Wilbur Wright - In a close one, Ford wins by a car length.

Joseph Stalin over Mao Zedong - The battle of the Red Armies.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over Nelson Mandela - Home court advantage propels MLK to next round.