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]
<Toronto C, European History>

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California2025-02-01Y320.00100%67%33%
Florida2025-02-01Y316.67100%33%33%
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y613.33100%17%17%
Midwest2025-02-01Y621.67100%50%67%
North2025-02-01Y310.0067%33%0%
Northeast2025-02-01Y520.00100%60%40%
Overflow2025-02-01Y522.00100%60%60%
South Central2025-02-01Y220.00100%50%50%
Southeast2025-02-01Y417.5075%50%50%
UK2025-02-01Y1022.00100%60%60%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y820.00100%50%50%
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y310.00100%0%0%

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Florida AFlorida State A0101020
Florida BValencia A001010
UCF BUCF C1001020
Case Western BCarnegie Mellon B1001020
Michigan BKenyon0101020
Michigan DMichigan A001010
Carnegie Mellon AMichigan State001010
Ohio State AMichigan C001010
Case Western AOhio State B001010
UC Berkeley BClaremont B0101020
UC Berkeley AUCLA10101030
Claremont AUCSD001010
Illinois AWashU A10101030
WashU BIllinois B001010
Indiana AChicago C10101030
Indiana BChicago D1001020
Chicago BMissoui S&T001010
Chicago AMissouri10101030
Winona StateIowa State0101020
Minnesota BWisconsin B001010
CarletonWisconsin A0000
Harvard BBU001010
Brandeis BBrandeis A001010
Dartmouth AUMass Boston0101020
Harvard ATufts A10101030
Brown AMIT A10101030
Texas BTAMU10101030
ASUTexas A001010
Bruin AGeorgia Tech A0101020
Georgia Tech BAlabama A1001020
Georgia Tech CTennessee A10101030
Georgia Tech DVanderbilt A0000
Imperial BBristol1001020
Cambridge AImperial A10101030
Oxford CCambridge B001010
Oxford ACambridge D10101030
ManchesterDurham0101020
NYU CWarwick A10101030
Oxford BCambridge C0101020
Warwick BSheffield1001020
LSESouthampton A0101020
Cambridge ESouthampton B1001020
Cornell BVassar A001010
Columbia BGeorge Washington B001010
Johns Hopkins AColumbia C10101030
Maryland AHaverford B001010
NYU AMaryland B10101030
Haverford ANYU B10101030
John Jay CollegePenn A001010
Yale AGeorge Washington A10101030
Binghamton ARIT B001010
ESF ACornell D001010
RIT ACornell C001010
Northwestern AGeorgetown A10101030
Notre Dame BGeorgetown B001010
IowaNotre Dame A10101030
Stanford BNorthwestern B10101030
PurdueNotre Dame C001010