County of Edessa - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The last ruler of this state, Joscelin II, failed to retake it after the assassination of Imad al-Din Zengi by an enslaved European named Yarankash. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this state whose conquest by the Seljuks in 1144 prompted Bernard of Clairvaux to deliver a Palm Sunday sermon at Vézelay calling for what became the Second Crusade.

ANSWER: County of Edessa

[10m] Bernard’s audience at Vézelay included this queen, the niece of the prince of Antioch Raymond of Poitiers. This woman accompanied her husband to the Holy Land, but divorced him shortly after their return.

ANSWER: Eleanor of Aquitaine [prompt on Eleanor]

[10e] Forty years later, the Third Crusade was led partly by this son of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This king of England defeated Saladin at the Battle of Jaffa but was captured and held for ransom by Leopold of Austria on his way home.

ANSWER: Richard I [or Richard the Lionheart; or Richard Coeur de Lion; prompt on Richard]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	21.00	100%	90%	20%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	83%	83%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	17.14	86%	57%	29%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	20.83	92%	67%	50%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	21.25	88%	75%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Brock	10	10	10	30
Carleton University	Toronto G	10	10	10	30
Guelph	Western A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	McGill B	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	Western C	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	McMaster B	0	10	10	20
Queen's	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
UBC B	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Simon Fraser	Western B	0	10	10	20
Central Florida A	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Central Florida C	0	10	10	20
Florida C	Florida B	10	0	10	20
CWRU A	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	CWRU B	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
Ohio State C	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Indiana C	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Northwestern C	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Claremont	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Washington B	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	Carleton College	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Missouri B	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin B	Brandeis B	0	0	0	0
Harvard B	Brown	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Dartmouth B	0	10	10	20
MIT	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Yale	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Murray State A	0	0	10	10
Texas A&M A	Texas B	0	0	0	0
Mississipi State	Tennessee B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Bruin	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Alabama B	10	10	10	30
Louisville B	Sewanee	0	0	10	10
Bristol	Oxford A	10	10	10	30
Imperial C	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Cardiff	0	0	0	0
City St. George's	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Durham	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
LSE	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
Manchester	Montpellier	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
UCL	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt B	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Columbia C	Maryland A	0	10	10	20
Cornell A	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
RIT	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Rochester	Penn State	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Vassar	10	10	10	30
John Jay	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Georgetown	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Catholic	10	10	10	30
Swarthmore	NYU C	0	0	10	10