Question
Either a five- or seven-year drought occurred after the founding of this dynasty, the earlier dynasty to produce animal-like taotie masks. What may have been this dynasty’s first capital has been identified with the Erligang culture. Ezra Pound’s dictum “make it new” came from one of this dynasty’s rulers etching the phrase onto a bathtub. This dynasty was menaced by northern attackers referred to as the Guifang, who were fought by armies under Lady Hao as described in her tomb. This dynasty was ended at the Battle of (*) Müye. At this dynasty’s capital of Yinxu, archaeologists discovered the oldest Chinese writing on a set of oracle bones. For 10 points, name this first archaeologically supported Chinese dynasty, which succeeded the semi-mythical Xia. ■END■
Summary
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 100% | 43% | 29% | 76.29 |
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 87.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 80% | 40% | 20% | 70.75 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 25% | 77.50 |
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 30.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 118.00 |
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ryanb | Berkeley C | Stanford | 30 | 15 |
John John Groger | Columbia A | Swarthmore | 34 | 15 |
Erik Christensen | Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Toronto Weary | 35 | 15 |
Jacky Xu | Cornell A | JHU B | 35 | 15 |
Oliver Hargrave | Betrayed by Rita Izzatdust | Broken Hearts | 35 | 15 |
Lexi Terman | Rutgers | John Jay A | 37 | 15 |
Joey Sun | Toronto Rofl | La Clique du Château | 48 | 15 |
Abigail Tan | Tabearnacle | Foucault's Penndulum | 54 | 15 |
Jason Hong | Brown | Harvard | 74 | 15 |
James Mangraviti | Boston College | Brandeis | 81 | 15 |
Andrew Rout | 10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | Edinburgh | 83 | -5 |
Richard Niu | Cornell B | JHU A | 88 | 10 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU | PItt | 88 | -5 |
Oliver Wu | Oklahoma | Rice | 88 | -5 |
Claire Jones | Scottish, Irish, Both or Neither | Old London Town | 88 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | Florida B | North Florida | 100 | 10 |
Jared He | Waterloo Hatsune | Toronto Joy | 106 | 10 |
Peter Berggren | MIT | Tufts | 106 | 10 |
Caleb Kendrick | UMD A | UMD B | 106 | 10 |
Matt Booth | Four Neg Omelette | Yes, Moderator | 106 | 10 |
Graham Cope | Florida A | FSU B | 109 | 10 |
Cade Reinberger | RIT | Columbia B | 109 | -5 |
Chinmay Murthy | Texas A | Texas C | 110 | 10 |
Kane Nguyen | Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | Waterloo Miku | 111 | -5 |
Samuel Wang | PItt | NYU | 112 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Waterloo Miku | Mixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian | 121 | 10 |
William Groger | Columbia B | RIT | 122 | 10 |
Ryan Humphrey | Texas B | Oklahoma B | 122 | 10 |
Letian Li | Rice | Oklahoma | 122 | 10 |
Parth Jagtap | Edinburgh | 10 Negs that Shook the Quiz | 122 | 0 |