“Mò Lì Huā” - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

During the 2013 Chinese New Year’s Gala, Celine Dion performed a duet of this song with Sòng Zǔyīng. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Chinese folk song that opens with the melody [read slowly] “E, E-G-A-C-C-A-G,” as the narrator observes a “beautiful” one of the title objects.

ANSWER: “Mò Lì Huā” (“mwuh lee hwah”) [or “Jasmine Flower”]

[10e] After he was gifted a music box with Chinese melodies, Giacomo Puccini based the musical theme for this character on “Mò Li Huā.” This title princess of Puccini’s last opera gives a deadly challenge of three riddles to win her hand in marriage.

ANSWER: Turandot

[10m] The melody of “Mò Lì Huā” is also quoted in this contemporary Chinese composer’s Symphony 1997. This composer of the Water Concerto scored the films Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

ANSWER: Tán Dùn

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	12.50	75%	13%	38%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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