Empress Elisabeth of Austria - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Franziska Feifalik’s elaborate hair care routine for this woman included a wash with egg yolk and cognac every two weeks to create her “crown braid.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this woman who commissioned a palace named after Achilles on Corfu as a summer refuge after a family tragedy. This woman was assassinated in Geneva by the anarchist Luigi Lucheni (“loo-KAY-nee”).

ANSWER: Empress Elisabeth of Austria [accept Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie; accept Elisabeth of Bavaria; accept Sisi or Sissi]

[10m] Empress Elisabeth built the Achilleion (“ah-KILL-ee-on”) after this event. This event was named after the hunting lodge where her son Rudolf died, after the Habsburg family learned of his affair with the young Baroness Mary Vetsera.

ANSWER: Mayerling incident

[10e] The Mayerling incident led to this man becoming the heir to the Austrian throne, though this man never inherited due to his assassination by Gavrilo Princip.

ANSWER: Franz Ferdinand [or Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria; or Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	21.67	100%	50%	67%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	22.00	100%	60%	60%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	22.00	100%	60%	60%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Illinois A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Chicago C	10	10	10	30
Texas B	TAMU	10	10	10	30
ASU	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Georgetown A	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Notre Dame A	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Purdue	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Oxford C	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Manchester	Durham	0	10	10	20
NYU C	Warwick A	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Sheffield	10	0	10	20
LSE	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge E	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	0	10	10
ESF A	Cornell D	0	0	10	10
RIT A	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
UC Berkeley B	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	UCLA	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	UCSD	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Florida State A	0	10	10	20
Florida B	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UCF C	10	0	10	20
Case Western B	Carnegie Mellon B	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Case Western A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Indiana B	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Missoui S&T	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Missouri	10	10	10	30
Winona State	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin A	0	0	0	0
Harvard B	BU	0	0	10	10
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth A	UMass Boston	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Brown A	MIT A	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	George Washington B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Maryland A	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Haverford A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
John Jay College	Penn A	0	0	10	10
Yale A	George Washington A	10	10	10	30