Question

Two answers required. One of these two powers constructed “the Beauteous Fortress” during a campaign in which Marshal de Boucicaut (“boo-see-COH”) aided the other. One of these empires tried to form an alliance with the Ilkhanate ruler Mahmud Ghazan to fight the other after the Battle of Bapheus. Fighting between these two empires destroyed the Hexamilion (-5[1])wall. During an incident between these two empires, one of them refused to follow John Kantakouzenos’s orders by continuing to settle Gallipoli. An emperor supposedly (-5[1])turned to marble after a siege (10[1])between these two empires (10[1])that caused the fall of the Paleologos dynasty. For 10 points, what two (10[1])empires fought each other during the 1453 siege of (10[1])Constantinople? (10[2])■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Byzantine Empire AND Ottoman Empire [accept Eastern Roman Empire in place of “Byzantine Empire”; accept Turkish Empire or Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye in place of “Ottoman Empire”; accept Byzantine–Ottoman Wars; reject answers that mention “Roman Empire” alone or “Roman Republic”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Owyn NoblePurdue CNotre Dame54-5
Liam StarnesUChicago BPurdue B79-5
Aden SunUChicago ASIUE A8510
Michael HundingUIUC AWashU B8910
Sam McNameeNotre DamePurdue C10210
Stephen WalshNorthwestern AWashU D11110
Nermeen RahmanIndiana BMiami11210
Hayden WillettPurdue DUChicago D11210
Reilly MelvillePurdue BUChicago B1130

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