Bonus

This character’s namesake “compulsion” inspired Hu Shih’s play The Greatest Event in Life, in which the bride-to-be Tian Yamei struggles to have her parents accept her inauspicious marriage. For 10 points each:
[10m] What character titles a 1923 lecture delivered at a women’s college that declares “Dreams are fine, otherwise money is essential”?
ANSWER: Nora Helmer [accept Nuola; prompt on Helmer] (The lecture is Lu Xun’s “What Happens After Nora Leaves Home?”)
[10e] This theatrical movement fathered by Ibsen inspired Chinese huàjù, or “spoken drama,” in contrast to traditional sung theatre. During the Cultural Revolution, the CCP mandated this style’s “socialist” form.
ANSWER: realism [accept word forms such as realist; accept socialist realism; accept xiànshí zhǔyì]
[10h] In two nods to Ibsen’s Ghosts, this landmark huàjù play by Cáo Yú (“tsao yoo”) has a retrospective prologue and epilogue set in a Catholic hospital, and ends by revealing that Zhou Ping’s relationship with the servant Sifeng was incestuous.
ANSWER: Thunderstorm [or Léiyǔ; or Thunder Rain]
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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateTexas1010020ME
Chicago BVirginia1010020ME
Columbia BToronto A010010E
Cornell BIllinois B010010E
Georgia TechUC Berkeley A1010020ME
Illinois ARutgers1010020ME
IndianaFlorida1010020ME
Iowa StateYale010010E
MinnesotaBritish Columbia0101020EH
NYURIT1010020ME
North Carolina AHarvard010010E
NorthwesternUC Berkeley B010010E
Ohio StateJohns Hopkins1001020MH
OttawaLSE1010020ME
Penn StateToronto C1010020ME
StanfordVirginia Tech10101030MEH
UCFGeorgia State1010020ME
VanderbiltCornell A0000
WUSTL BMichigan1010020ME
Waterloo BNorth Carolina B010010E
Winona StateChicago A1010020ME

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2116.6791%62%14%