Question
A “Record” of this good was written by the creator of a “dragon tribute” type of it, the famous calligrapher Cai Xiang (“tsai sh’YAHNG”). A network of trade routes known as the “Southern Silk Road” was named for horses and this good. Emperor Huizong (“hway-dzong”) of Song wrote an influential “Grand Treatise” on this good, in which he laid out criteria for “competitions” focused on this good. The Rinzai monk Eisai (“AY-sigh”) is said to have introduced this good to Japan from China, whose ritualized preparation of it is known as gongfu. Lu Tingcan wrote a “sequel” to a “Classic” about this good by Lu Yu, which details its mythical discovery by Shennong after looking into his pot of water. For 10 points, in China and Japan, what drink is presented in elaborate namesake ceremonies? ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 82.33 |
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 77.33 |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.83 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 80.17 |
North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 100.33 |
Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 57.80 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 111.00 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 110.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 55.00 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.60 |
Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 82.75 |
Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 83.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nathaniel Hull | UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 39 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | Florida State A | 39 | 10 |
Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Harvard B | 39 | 10 |
Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | Brandeis A | 39 | 10 |
Megan Wang | Brown A | Dartmouth A | 39 | 10 |
Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 39 | 10 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 39 | 10 |
Danny Han | Penn A | Maryland B | 39 | 10 |
Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | George Washington A | 39 | 10 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana A | Indiana B | 41 | 10 |
Jaehyun Park | BU | UMass Boston | 41 | -5 |
Jonathan Huang | MIT A | Tufts A | 41 | 10 |
CT Tang | Sheffield | Imperial B | 42 | 10 |
Cormac Beirne | LSE | Oxford C | 43 | 10 |
Ben Sterling | Yale A | NYU B | 44 | -5 |
Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Chicago C | 51 | -5 |
Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame A | 56 | -5 |
Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Missoui S&T | 57 | -5 |
John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 63 | -5 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | South Carolina | 66 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago A | 67 | 10 |
Justin Lee | Imperial A | NYU C | 67 | 10 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU B | 70 | 10 |
Scarlet Rutter | Claremont B | Claremont A | 78 | 10 |
Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Carleton | 78 | -5 |
James Zhao | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 78 | -5 |
Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Southampton B | 78 | 10 |
Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Maryland A | 78 | 10 |
Tom Scheri | RIT B | Cornell C | 78 | 10 |
Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | WashU A | 81 | 10 |
Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Notre Dame B | 81 | 10 |
Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Warwick A | 81 | 10 |
Matthew Andersen | Florida B | Valencia A | 83 | 10 |
Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Wake Forest | 83 | 10 |
Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Winona State | 83 | 10 |
Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Oxford A | 83 | 10 |
Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Durham | 83 | 10 |
Matt Shinnick | Georgetown A | Iowa | 85 | 10 |
Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | George Washington B | 85 | 10 |
James Byrne | Bristol | Cambridge D | 86 | 10 |
Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Cambridge E | 86 | 10 |
Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | Binghamton A | 86 | 10 |
Chris Scheri | RIT A | ESF A | 86 | 10 |
Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | UNC B | 87 | 10 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 87 | 10 |
Grant Avis | Louisville A | Alabama A | 87 | 10 |
Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Warwick B | 87 | 10 |
William Groger | Columbia B | NYU A | 87 | 10 |
Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A | 89 | 10 |
Gabe Dubowski | Illinois B | Chicago D | 92 | 10 |
Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | William & Mary | 94 | 10 |
Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Vassar A | 95 | 10 |
Michael Eng | UNC C | Liberty C | 108 | 10 |
Avery Barnett | Haverford A | Columbia C | 108 | 10 |
Raj Doshi | UCF B | UCF C | 110 | 10 |
Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | Northwestern A | 111 | -5 |
Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 113 | 10 |
Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Purdue | 127 | 10 |
Freddie O'Hara | UCLA | UCSD | 130 | 10 |
Megan Ha | Chicago C | Illinois C | 130 | 10 |
John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Minnesota B | 131 | 10 |
Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | BU | 131 | 10 |
Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Stanford B | 131 | 10 |
Christopher Sims | Northwestern A | Notre Dame C | 131 | 10 |
Bryan Ugaz | ASU | TAMU | 131 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 131 | 0 |
Zaid Asif | NYU B | Yale A | 131 | 10 |