Sun Wukong asked the employees of this place to produce a registry, then promptly erased the names of himself and all other monkeys from the registry’s pages. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this location governed by King Yan, who employs Ox-Head and Horse-Face.
ANSWER: Chinese underworld [or Dìyù; or hell; or naraka; accept Dark Regions or yīnjiān]
[10e] King Yan employs nine kings of hell who, like Yan, serve this role for people who come there. In Greek myth, Minos, Rhadamanthys (“rah-dah-MAN-thiss”) and Aeacus (“EE-uh-kuss”) have this job in the underworld.
ANSWER: judges of the dead [accept answers referring to judging the dead; accept dikastes]
[10h] Description acceptable. Yan’s employee of the month is often Zhōng Kuí (“kway”) who, despite being the best in all of China at (emphasize) this task, was denied a reward because he was too ugly. Yan, however, saw potential due to Zhōng’s skill at this task and made him king of ghosts.
ANSWER: taking the civil service exams [accept any answer that refers to civil service examinations or imperial examinations or civil service tests or kējǔ or subject recommendations; prompt on taking tests or taking exams by asking “which exams?”]
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