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Question

Jonathan Spence’s section on this year in The Search for Modern China is titled “The Old Guard Dies.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this year in which the devastating Tangshan Earthquake killed over 240,000 people, which some interpreted as an omen for Mao Zedong’s death, which also occurred in this year.

ANSWER: 1976 [prompt on 76]

[10m] Other notable political changes in 1976 included the death of Zhou Enlai and the downfall of this political faction, which came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution and was led by Jiang Qing.

ANSWER: Gang of Four [or Sì rén bāng]

[10e] Mourners placed flowers and poems on a memorial in this plaza after Zhou Enlai’s 1976 death, but were quickly denounced by Deng Xiaoping. Later student protests in this plaza were violently put down in 1989.

ANSWER: Tiananmen Square

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	25.00	100%	75%	75%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%

Data


Boston College A	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
Harvard	MIT	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Yale	Amherst	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Squidward Community College	10	0	10	20
WashU	Truman	10	10	10	30
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	In the Mood for Buzz	10	10	10	30
The cult of SGA	Madmen and Specialists	10	0	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Old and Young	10	10	10	30
bingy academy	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	10	10	20
Penn State	Maryland	10	10	10	30
RIT	Pitt	0	0	10	10
UCF B	Florida Tech	0	0	10	10
UF A	UF C	10	10	10	30
Valencia	USF	0	0	10	10
UF B	UCF A	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Past	Stanford	10	10	10	30
Carleton A	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	0	10	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	0	10	20
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Waterloo Cloze	0	0	10	10
Waterloo Basic	Toronto A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Innovation Academy B	0	10	10	20
Innovation Academy A	Lambert	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State	Milton	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Illinois Orange	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame	Illinois Blue	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
Bristol	LSE A	0	0	10	10
LSE B	Southampton	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Warwick C	10	10	10	30
ALCU	Jason et al.	10	10	10	30
SGV Ventures	Claremont	10	10	10	30
U[C]SD	Anderson et al.	0	10	10	20