wǔxiá - 2024 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

Cheng Pei-pei was a Shaw Brothers star in this genre, which developed stylized trampoline-and-wire choreography in the 1960s. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this genre of King Hu’s films Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen. These films typically feature roaming heroes who practice martial arts and swordplay.

ANSWER: wǔxiá [prompt on kung fu, gōngfu, or wǔshù]

[10h] In A Touch of Zen, Hsu Feng spins through the air to dispatch two assassins in one of these places. Ang Lee paid homage to King Hu by filming a wire-work sword duel in one of these places in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

ANSWER: bamboo forest [or bamboo grove; prompt on forest or grove]

[10e] This Wachowski sisters film helped bring Hong Kong “wire fu” to Hollywood. This 1999 film used slo-mo “bullet time” effects to depict fights in a simulated reality.

ANSWER: The Matrix

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford L	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	stanford M	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Emory B	0	0	10	10
Clemson A	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech E	Emory A	10	0	10	20
Penn State A	Bard A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Penn B	10	0	10	20
UChicago C	Purdue C	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU B	UChicago D	10	0	10	20
WashU D	UIUC B	10	0	10	20
Michigan D (DII)	CWRU D (DII)	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Kenyon B (DII)	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan State A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	0	10	20
Pitt A	Michigan State B (UG)	10	10	10	30
Oregon State	Central Oklahoma	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Vassar B	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	10	20
UBC A	SFU	10	10	10	30
UW B	UBC B	0	0	10	10
UF A	Florida Tech A	10	0	10	20
UF E	Florida State University A	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Bristol B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Durham A	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Birmingham	LSE B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Cambridge D	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Durham A	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Durham A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Bristol A	Vanderbilt	0	0	10	10
Amherst A	Yale B	10	0	10	20
Brown A	Tufts B	10	0	10	20
MIT	Harvard A	0	0	10	10
Northeastern A	Carabrandeis	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20