Bonus
Bizarre creatures in this book include the héluō (“huh-LWOH”), a fish with one head and ten bodies, which barks like a dog and cures tumors when eaten. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this text that also includes a very early mention of a lucky nine-tailed fox. Guō Pú wrote commentaries on this 18-section text, whose latter parts discuss the dàhuāng, a “great wilderness” far from China.
ANSWER: Classic of Mountains and Seas [or Guideways through Mountains and Seas or the Table of Classic Mountains and Seas; accept Shān Hǎi Jīng; reject answers given in the alternate order of “Seas” then “Mountains,” like “Classic of Seas and Mountains”]
[10e] Due to its lively descriptions of creatures such as the nine-headed jiǔfèng (“j’yoh-FUNG”) bird, the Classic is often compared to these medieval Western texts. The Aberdeen one contains illustrations of “the phoenix” and “the dragon.”
ANSWER: bestiary [or bestiaries; accept Aberdeen bestiary]
[10m] The Classic was once dubiously attributed to this figure. While managing a 13-year crisis, this creator of the Nine Tripod Bronzes never entered his house, despite passing it three times.
ANSWER: Yu the Great [or Dà Yǔ; or Yu the Engineer; accept any answer indicating the first emperor named Yǔ within the Xià dynasty; prompt on Yu] (The crisis was a great flood.)
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | Florida | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cornell A | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Cornell B | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech | MIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Illinois A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Illinois B | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Johns Hopkins | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| NYU | Georgia State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina A | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Penn State | Waterloo B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| RIT | UCF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rutgers | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley B | British Columbia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | M |
| Vanderbilt | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| WUSTL A | Waterloo A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| WUSTL B | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Winona State | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Yale | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 12.92 | 63% | 54% | 13% |