blank pages - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Note to players: Description acceptable. The line “When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge” inspires attempts to decipher a book with this property in Idries Shah’s The Book of the Book. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name or describe this property of a section preceded by “The Wizard” in an Edward Seidensticker translation of one novel.

ANSWER: blank pages [accept descriptions of containing no text or being empty; accept mostly blank]

[10e] The blank chapter “Vanished into the Clouds” implies the death of this title prince of an 11th century “Tale” by Lady Murasaki.

ANSWER: Genji Hikaru [or Genji Hikaru or Hikaru Genji; accept The Tale of Genji; accept Genji Monogatari]

[10m] Despite Genji’s death, the novel does not end until a chapter titled for a “Floating Bridge of [these events].” One of these events in another novel involving the 12 Beauties of Jīnlíng is sometimes studied in Redology.

ANSWER: dreams [accept “The Floating Bridge of Dreams” or Dream of the Red Chamber]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	12.86	100%	14%	14%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%

Data


Michigan A	Pittsburgh	10	10	10	30
Art of Premature Signaling	girl 15 whale i mean they	0	10	0	10
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Billy's Bastion	10	10	10	30
Too much from you lately	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	10	30
Brown	Belmont	0	10	10	20
BU	Brandeis	0	10	10	20
MIT	Harvard	10	10	10	30
RIT	Lexington	0	10	10	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	10	10	10	30
Catholic University of America	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
George Mason A	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
George Washington	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
CWRU	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Rutgers	0	10	10	20
UW A	Arizona State University A	10	10	0	20
Carleton	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	0	10
Alberta	UW B	0	10	0	10
Washington Connections	Arizona State University B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge	Manchester	0	10	0	10
LSE	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield C	Edinburgh	0	10	10	20
Lancaster	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Warwick C	0	10	0	10
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	10	10	30
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	10	10	0	20
Master and Margaritaville	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	0	10	10	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	Missouri	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	SIUE	0	10	10	20
WashU Squirtle	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	WashU Bulbasaur	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Truman State	0	10	10	20
WashU Charmander	Chicago B	0	10	10	20