corsets - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

A debunked myth around this clothing item suggested that Catherine de’ Medici brought it over to France from Italy. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this clothing item historically lined with whalebone or steel, which was worn by women underneath dresses to shape their figure.

ANSWER: corsets

[10h] This empress commissioned rigid leather corsets which could be laced extremely tightly. This wife of Emperor Franz Josef was assassinated by the anarchist Luigi Lucheni in 1898.

ANSWER: Empress Elisabeth of Austria [or Elisabeth of Bavaria; accept Sisi in place of Elisabeth]

[10m] Corsets fell out of fashion during this period of British history, during which a monarch who may have suffered from porphyria was forced to step away from direct rule.

ANSWER: Regency era [prompt on Georgian era; prompt on the reign of George III]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	15.56	100%	22%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	13	16.15	100%	23%	39%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	12.22	100%	11%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	18.89	100%	56%	33%

Data


Miami C (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan D (UG)	CWRU B (DII)	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	Miami B (UG)	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan State B	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois D	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Iowa B	10	0	10	20
Indiana	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Iowa A	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
Cornell G	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	RIT B	10	10	0	20
Syracuse	Cornell E	10	10	10	30
U of Rochester A	Cornell F	10	0	0	10
Cornell B	ESF	10	0	10	20
Cornell A	Penn State	10	0	0	10
RIT A	U of Rochester B	10	0	0	10
Binghamton B	RIT C	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Belmont	10	10	10	30
Emory A	Clemson B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Furman	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech E	Clemson A	10	0	0	10
Mississippi State A	Georgia A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
South Carolina B	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Southern	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Miami A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	10	30
Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	West Virginia A (UG)	10	0	0	10
West Virginia B (UG)	Michigan B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Appalachian State A	10	0	0	10
William & Mary	Appalachian State B	10	10	10	30
Duke B	James Madison A	10	0	0	10
Liberty B	James Madison B	10	0	0	10
UNC C	NC State	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
UNC D	UNC A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	10	0	0	10
Virginia	Duke A	10	0	0	10
Claremont B	UCLA A	10	0	0	10
UCLA C	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	UCLA E	10	0	0	10
Claremont C	UCSD	10	0	10	20
Claremont A	USC	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
WashU A	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	WashU B	10	0	0	10