After a noble with this name refused a kiss of peace with a rival, he joined Alfonso II d’Este on his crusade in Hungary during the Long Turkish War. A noble with this first name was murdered in the bedroom of a king of this name in a conspiracy partly planned by Marshal Aumont. A noble of this name led the Council of Sixteen to riot against a king of this name with Bernardino de Mendoza. The Forty-Five was the retinue of a king of this name who was forced out of one city after the (*) Day of the Barricades. Shortly after a noble of this name’s marriage to Margaret of Valois, the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre occurred. A noble with this first name founded the Catholic League as the Duke of Guise. Part of the French Wars of Religion is named for three rulers with, for 10 points, what name of the first Bourbon king of France who said “Paris is well worth a mass” after converting to Catholicism? ■END■
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 49 | 15 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | Art of Premature Signaling | 55 | -5 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 63 | -5 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Missouri | 63 | 15 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 68 | 15 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Catholic University of America | 68 | 15 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Billy's Bastion | 71 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Egypt Airlines Haters | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 72 | 15 |
| Grant Peet | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 74 | 15 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Imperial B | 75 | -5 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Illinois C | 78 | 15 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan A | Ohio State D | 80 | 15 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Toronto B | Waterloo C | 85 | -5 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Haverford A | 86 | -5 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Master and Margaritaville | 86 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont A | 87 | 15 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Pittsburgh | 93 | -5 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Cambridge | 98 | 10 |
| Kethan Raman | UCLA A | UCSD | 99 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa A | Waterloo A | 99 | -5 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Truman State | 99 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Gruh | 99 | 10 |
| Alvan Hossein | Lexington | RIT | 99 | -5 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW B | 100 | 10 |
| Will Houston | Chicago B | WashU Bulbasaur | 100 | 10 |
| Anthony Zhao | Mahjonng Masters | evil women enjoyers | 101 | -5 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Goober Gang | 103 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | Maryland A | 103 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Warwick B | 104 | -5 |
| Sky Li | Toronto C | Mac A | 105 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 106 | -5 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | mongeese | 108 | -5 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto D | Waterloo B | 109 | -5 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | Belmont | 111 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Washington Connections | 111 | -5 |
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | MSJ | 111 | 10 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 111 | -5 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington | NYU B | 114 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis | BU | 116 | 10 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Illinois Orange | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 116 | 10 |
| Nick Edwards | McGill A | UBC | 116 | 10 |
| Parikshit Chauhan | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Caltech | 117 | 10 |
| Elie Aoun | CWRU | Maryland B | 117 | -5 |
| William Gillard | Warwick C | Manchester | 117 | 10 |
| Ryan Happel | SIUE | Iowa State | 117 | 10 |
| Ragulan Sivakumar | MIT | Harvard | 117 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason A | 117 | 10 |
| Chansol Park | NYU C | Rutgers | 117 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Quatumvirate | we need new names | 117 | -5 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 117 | 10 |
| Elliot Earley | Sheffield C | Lancaster + Sheffield C | 117 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | McGill B | 117 | -5 |
| Hazel DePreist-Sullivan | evil women enjoyers | Mahjonng Masters | 119 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Guelph | 122 | -5 |
| Naomi Joseph | Oberlin | Ohio State C | 127 | 10 |
| Alan Kappler | Claremont B | UCSB | 139 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | WashU Squirtle | 139 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Carleton | 141 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | Arizona State University A | South Dakota School of Mines | 144 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 145 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 145 | 10 |
| Varun Sathyajeeth | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 148 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State University B | UW A | 148 | 10 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Warwick A | 148 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Toronto E | 150 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Birmingham | 154 | -5 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Haverford B | 157 | 10 |
| Max Lin | we need new names | Quatumvirate | 157 | 10 |
| Eloise Wood | Imperial B | Sheffield A | 159 | 0 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | CWRU | 165 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD | UCLA A | 166 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | Chicago A | 166 | 10 |
| Seth Kendall | Billy's Bastion | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 166 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCLA B | 169 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Edinburgh | 169 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | Auburn 2026 | 169 | 10 |
| Joe O'Connor | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins B | 170 | 0 |
| Jeevika Setzer | Johns Hopkins B | George Mason B | 170 | 0 |
| Elijah Mandelbaum | Guelph | Toronto Metropolitan | 170 | 0 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | Ottawa A | 170 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo B | Toronto D | 170 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Michigan D | 170 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Lexington | 170 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | NYU A | 170 | 10 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 170 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill B | Simon Fraser | 170 | 10 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Toronto B | 170 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Master and Margaritaville | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 170 | 10 |