While meeting with this person, a girl screamed “Cut head off!” in fear of a portrait on the wall of a sword-wielding figure. Martha Ann Ricks worked for over two decades to create and then deliver a coffee tree-decorated quilt to this person. A Mansudae-built bronze monument commemorates a meeting with this person or a subordinate by three dikgosi. This person arranged for the funeral of Prince Alemayehu and took in Sarah Forbes Bonetta as a goddaughter. (*) Tewodros II committed suicide using a dueling pistol gifted to him by this person, who was taught Hindustani by “the Munshi” Abdul Karim. An angry open letter addressed to this ruler was sent by Lin Zexu, who seized and destroyed a thousand tons of opium from this ruler’s empire in 1839. For 10 points, name this first Empress of India. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 18% | 9% | 97.55 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tejas Raje | BHSU B | Big is moving to Evanston! | 76 | 15 |
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Floridovician | 76 | 15 |
| William Golden | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 78 | 10 |
| Auroni Gupta | BHSU X | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 84 | 10 |
| Stephen Liu | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | 90 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 97 | -5 |
| Sinecio Morales | Enjoying the Hole Experience | Broken Socal Scene | 99 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Halifax Shipping Services | Do re mi fa serving negs | 99 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | It's not X, but... defenders | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 107 | 10 |
| Kevin Peng | Please sir, may I have some morb? | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 116 | 10 |
| Justin Wytmar | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 121 | 10 |
| Michael Coates | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 127 | 10 |