Húběi province - 2025 ACF Nationals

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This province contains a system of tunnels built for use in case of nuclear war called Underground Project 131. The Purple Cloud Institute takes its name from a Daoist temple in the mountains of this province. The city of Yíchāng (10[1])in this province is near the Gězhōubà (“guh-joh-BAH”) Dam. In 2022, a huge bronze depiction of the Green Dragon Crescent Blade was removed as this province demolished a 190-foot (-5[1])statue of Guān Yǔ. This province’s capital, where the hot dry noodle dish règānmiàn (10[1])(“ruh-gan-m’YEN”) is traditional, (-5[1])is often described as a “triple city” formed from the merger of (10[1]-5[1])Hànkǒu (“han-KOH”) and two (10[2])other towns. (10[1]-5[1])This province’s name alludes to its location north of Dòngtíng Lake, (-5[2])which contrasts (10[2])with a (10[1])province to its south where Mao Zedong was born. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Chinese province where “wet markets” (-5[1])were a likely origin (-5[1])for (10[1])SARS-CoV-2 (-5[1])first detected in (-5[1])Wǔhàn. ■END■ (10[6]0[3])

ANSWER: Húběi province [or Húběi shěng; prompt on HB; reject “Héběi” or “Héběi shěng”; ask players to spell their answer if their intended first vowel is unclear; reject “HE” or “HEB”] (The province to its south is Húnán.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Jacky Xu	Cornell A	Vanderbilt	39	10
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Rutgers	67	-5
John Chen	British Columbia	Minnesota	81	10
Jaik Havlick	Arizona State	Texas	83	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	Florida	95	-5
Chris Sims	Northwestern	UC Berkeley B	95	10
Adrian Wong	Ottawa	LSE	98	10
John John Groger	WUSTL B	Michigan	98	10
Brian Lai	Virginia	Chicago B	100	-5
Noah Chin	Virginia Tech	Stanford	100	10
Roxanne Tang	Ohio State	Johns Hopkins	111	-5
Micah Colman	Waterloo B	North Carolina B	111	-5
Sky Li	Toronto A	Columbia B	113	10
Ian Lu	Georgia Tech	UC Berkeley A	113	10
Ted Gan	Penn State	Toronto C	115	10
Conor Thompson	Iowa State	Yale	124	10
John Marvin	Chicago A	Winona State	134	-5
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford	North Carolina A	Harvard	138	-5
Owen Mimno	NYU	RIT	139	10
Amogh Kulkarni	Georgia State	UCF	140	-5
Julian Bushlow	Cornell B	Illinois B	143	-5
Liam Starnes	Chicago B	Virginia	145	10
Arjun Kala	Illinois B	Cornell B	145	0
Aum Mundhe	Rutgers	Illinois A	145	10
Qingyu Zhang	Florida	Indiana	145	10
Michael Kearney	Harvard	North Carolina A	145	0
David Bass	Johns Hopkins	Ohio State	145	10
Bryce Cruise	Texas	Arizona State	145	10
Crow He	North Carolina B	Waterloo B	145	10
Henry Bon	Winona State	Chicago A	145	0

Summary

Tournament	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 ACF Nationals	Yes	21	81%	0%	48%	116.76