cannibalism - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

After spending all night reading a history book, the narrator of a story begins to see a phrase encouraging this action repeated between the lines. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name or describe this action that an old couple have their dying child do in the story “Medicine.” The narrator pleads to “save the children” at the end of another story in which he believes his elder brother plans to do this action.

ANSWER: cannibalism [accept eating people or equivalents; accept eating blood-soaked food; prompt on eating with “eating what?”; prompt on eating food or equivalents; prompt on eating medicine with “what is the medicine?”]

[10m] The narrator of this Lu Xun story sees the words “eat people” in a textbook and becomes convinced that his elder brother ate his younger sister and plans to eat him too after being imprisoned.

ANSWER: “Diary of a Madman” [or “Madman’s Diary” or “Kuángrén Rìjì”]

[10e] “Medicine” and “Diary of a Madman” critique the practice of eating human flesh in the traditional medicine of this home country of Lu Xun.

ANSWER: China [or the People’s Republic of China or PRC or Zhongguo or Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo; reject “Republic of China”]

<JC, Short Fiction/Other Literature>

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	26.67	100%	89%	78%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	7	21.43	100%	71%	43%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	23.33	100%	67%	67%

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Michigan C	Pittsburgh	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Michigan D	10	10	10	30
Ohio State D	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Michigan A	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
UCSD	Art of Premature Signaling	0	0	10	10
Claremont B	Caltech	0	0	10	10
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	Claremont A	10	10	10	30
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
UCSB	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
Too much from you lately	Billy's Bastion	10	10	10	30
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	10	10	10	30
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	10	20
Belmont	Brandeis	10	0	10	20
BU	Brown	0	10	10	20
NYU A	George Mason A	10	10	10	30
CWRU	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers	George Mason C	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Lexington	0	0	10	10
RIT	MIT	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
UW A	UW B	0	0	10	10
Washington Connections	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	10	10	10	30
mongeese	Quatumvirate	0	10	10	20
Gruh	we need new names	10	10	10	30
Cambridge	Sheffield A	10	0	10	20
LSE	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Sheffield B	Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Warwick C	Lancaster	0	0	10	10
MSJ	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	0	10	20
Auburn 2026	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
evil women enjoyers	Free Agents 1	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Goober Gang	10	10	10	30
Mahjonng Masters	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	10	10	10	30
Egypt Airlines Haters	Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10
Waterloo C	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Toronto A	10	10	10	30
Toronto B	Waterloo A	10	10	10	30
Mac A	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Toronto Metropolitan	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	UBC	0	0	10	10
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	10	10	10	30
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	Master and Margaritaville	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	10	20
Chicago A	WashU Bulbasaur	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	SIUE	0	0	10	10
Truman State	Missouri	10	0	10	20
WashU Charmander	WashU Squirtle	0	10	10	20