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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

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4418.64100%59%27%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Birmingham AOxford0101020EM
Birmingham BSouthampton010010E
SouthperialCambridge0101020EM
WarperialBath010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓621.67100%67%50%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓316.67100%67%0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓320.00100%67%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓412.50100%0%25%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓520.00100%60%40%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓313.33100%33%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓415.00100%50%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓316.67100%67%0%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓522.00100%60%60%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓821.25100%88%25%