Question
An author with this first name and the surname Aitmatov wrote about a boy who listens to stories about the Horned Mother Deer in The White Ship and a novel set on one day, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this name that was adopted by an earlier ruler who, in a semi-fictional “history,” feuds with Jamukha and rescues his stolen wife Börte.
ANSWER: Genghis [or Chinggiz; or Chinggis; or Genghis Khan; accept Chinghiz Aitmatov; prompt on Temujin or Khan by asking “what is the full title he adopted?”]
[10h] In the 1980s, Kyrgyz author Chinggiz Aitmatov championed an epic about this national hero who unites the Kyrgyz tribes, possibly based on the khagan Bars Bek. This son of a shepherd fights the Oirat and marries Kanykei.
ANSWER: Manas (“mah-NOSS”)
[10e] Both the Epic of Manas and Mongolian epic poems such as the Jangar and Geser are transmitted in this manner. Occitan (“OCK-sit-in”) troubadours transmitted epic or lyric poetry in this manner.
ANSWER: singing [or sung poetry; accept throat singing or overtone singing or long song; or songs; prompt on oral or spoken literature or speech or music; prompt on any type of instrumental music by asking “and what other manner?”
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 67% | 100% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 70% | 60% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 63% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 80% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Berkeley C | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Stanford C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford B | Stanford A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | RIT A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Binghamton | RIT B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| GWU B (Grad) | UNC C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UNC A (Grad) | JMU A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Liberty A (Grad) | JMU B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Liberty C (DII) | GWU A (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland A (Grad) | Duke A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland B (UG) | Liberty B (DII) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maryland C (DII) | UNC D (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia B (UG) | UNC B (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Roanoke College A (DII) | Virginia C (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A (UG) | William & Mary A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Minnesota C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Minnesota B | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Cedarville | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Kenyon | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State B | Michigan C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia C | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| John Jay | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Rowan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Vassar | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bristol | Durham A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge A | Durham B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Edinburgh | Kiel | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford B | KCL | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Sheffield | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford C | Warwick | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | Imperial B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Alabama | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MTSU | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Tennessee | Harding | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Kentucky | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Dartmouth B | Boston University | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Brown A | Brandeis B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |