Packet 7: Bonus 14
This woman wrote a letter claiming “her liver had been broiled” from missing her husband while ruling a city in his stead. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this woman who shattered centuries of Ottoman tradition by formally marrying a sultan. This wife of Suleiman the Magnificent was the first Haseki Sultan.
ANSWER: Roxelana [accept Hürrem Sultan]
[10e] Roxelana commissioned the architect Mimar Sinan to design one of these buildings with a six galleried minaret. The Ottomans turned the Hagia Sophia into one of these religious sites.
ANSWER: mosque [accept masjid; accept jami’]
[10m] Because Roxelana was the mother of a sultan with this name nicknamed “the Drunkard,” she was an ancestor of every succeeding Ottoman Sultan. A sultan with this name was nicknamed “the Grim.”
ANSWER: Selim [accept Selim I or Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute; accept Selim II or Selim the Blond or Selim the Drunkard]
<History - World, Charan Shreekumar> | VAULT II Packet 07
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 18.64 | 100% | 59% | 27% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |