Question

You are an executive at a luxury fashion brand that is struggling to expand. For 10 points each:
[10e] You might debut designs at this north Italian city’s Fashion Week, one of the “Big Four.” The opera house La Scala is in this capital city of Lombardy.
ANSWER: Milan [or Milano]
[10m] You could start one of these fashion lines, such as McQ for Alexander McQueen, that offer mass-market versions of high-end items. They share their name with a physical process whose namesake parabolic PDE is, in some cases, identical to the heat equation.
ANSWER: diffusion lines [or diffusion brands; or diffusion equation; accept bridge lines; prompt on secondary lines]
[10h] You might seek to get acquired by this French holding company, which was founded by a timber magnate. This rival of LVMH owns luxury brands such as Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, and Balenciaga.
ANSWER: Kering [prompt on Pinault S.A. or Pinault-Printemps-Redoute or PPR by asking “what is its current name?”]
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y2414.58100%38%8%

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FloridaBritish Columbia1010020
Chicago BIowa State100010
VanderbiltColumbia B1001020
VirginiaCornell B100010
Georgia StateOttawa1010020
Columbia AIndiana10101030
Johns HopkinsMinnesota100010
Arizona StateNYU100010
North Carolina AUC Berkeley A100010
Ohio StateMichigan1010020
North Carolina BRIT100010
TexasHarvard100010
Illinois AToronto A100010
MITToronto B1010020
Georgia TechToronto C100010
WUSTL BUC Berkeley B1010020
UCFMaryland100010
Virginia TechCornell A100010
Waterloo ANorthwestern1010020
LSEWaterloo B100010
Illinois BWinona State1010020
YalePenn State100010
RutgersWUSTL A100010
StanfordChicago A1010020