pagodas - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

In the 8th century, Empress Shōtoku commissioned one million wooden reliquaries shaped like these structures. For 10 points each:

[10m] Xi’an’s (“shee-ahn’s”) Giant Wild Goose is an example of what tiered towers common in East Asia whose levels are divided by multiple eaves?

ANSWER: pagodas [or tō; or tǎ]

[10h] Japanese art historian Okakura Kakuzō gifted one of the pagoda reliquaries to this woman. A Chinese gu vessel was among the artworks stolen in the unsolved 1990 robbery of a Boston museum named for this woman.

ANSWER: Isabella Stewart Gardner [accept Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]

[10e] The Million Pagodas contain examples of these objects with incantations called durani. These silk or paper objects could be rolled up when not on display and were often hung to display Chinese calligraphy or painting.

ANSWER: scrolls [accept hanging scrolls; accept handscrolls]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
Florida	Main	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	24.00	100%	90%	50%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	21.11	89%	89%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	22.22	100%	89%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	7	24.29	100%	86%	57%
North	Main	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	24.55	82%	100%	64%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	18.75	63%	75%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	22.73	100%	82%	46%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Boss Bandit	10	0	10	20
Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	10	0	10	20
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Carleton B	10	0	10	20
McGill C	Carleton A	10	0	10	20
McGill E	Ottawa D	0	0	10	10
Ottawa B	Ottawa C	10	0	10	20
McMaster A	Brock A	10	10	10	30
McMaster C	Guelph A	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Queen's A	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto A	10	10	10	30
Toronto G	Toronto B	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Toronto F	10	10	10	30
Toronto I	Waterloo A	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Waterloo C	10	0	10	20
Florida B	Florida Tech B	10	0	0	10
Florida State A	UCF A	10	0	10	20
Claremont B	UCLA D	10	0	10	20
Claremont C	UCLA F	10	0	10	20
UCLA C	UCSD A	10	10	10	30
UCSD B	USC A	10	0	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	USC B	10	10	10	30
CWRU A	Ohio State D	10	0	10	20
CWRU C	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Louisville D	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
CWRU B	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Michigan State C	10	0	10	20
Michigan State B	Michigan State D	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	CWRU D	10	10	10	30
Louisville C	Pittsburgh	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	WVU B	10	0	10	20
JMU B	Duke A	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	UNC B	10	0	10	20
NCSU A	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
NCSU B	JMU A	10	0	0	10
UNC C	Tusculum A	10	10	10	30
UNC D	Virginia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	VCU A	10	0	10	20
Virginia A	William & Mary B	10	10	10	30
William & Mary C	Virginia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
George Mason A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Lehigh B	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Rutgers D	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Illinois Blue	Rose-Hulman A	10	10	10	30
Illinois Orange	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Iowa A	10	10	10	30
WashU Grolars	Purdue B	10	10	10	30
Illinois Champaign	Purdue D	0	0	10	10
WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Urbana	10	0	10	20
William Woods University A	Indiana A	10	0	10	20
St. Thomas	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Macalester	Wisconsin B	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin C	Wisconsin A	10	0	10	20
Vermont A	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
Williams A	Boston College A	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth A	Brandeis Mozart	10	0	10	20
Brown A	Brandeis Bach	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Amherst B	10	10	0	20
Boston College B	Dartmouth C	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Brandeis Beethoven	10	0	10	20
Boston University B	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth B	Tufts C	10	0	10	20
Tufts B	Harvard	10	10	0	20
MIT B	Williams B	10	0	10	20
Alberta A	Washington Coho	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	Washington Steelhead	0	0	0	0
Washington Chum	Boise State	10	0	10	20
British Columbia A	Washington Chinook	10	10	0	20
Texas	Washington Atlantic	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	Washington Masu	0	0	0	0
Washington Pink	Alberta B	10	10	10	30
Washington State	Washington Sockeye	10	0	10	20
Penn	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
George Mason C	Princeton	10	0	10	20
George Mason B	Rutgers C	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Stony Brook	0	0	10	10
Nebraska C	Central Oklahoma A	10	0	0	10
Murray State College A	Kansas State A	0	0	10	10
Murray State College B	Nebraska B	10	0	10	20
Tulsa A	Central Oklahoma B	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Auburn C	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Clemson C	10	10	10	30
Georgia A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Chipola College	10	10	10	30
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech F	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State A	Sewanne	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt A	Montevallo	10	10	10	30
Tennessee Tech	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Vanderbilt C	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh A	Durham D	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
Oxford	Cambridge C	10	0	10	20
Warwick	Cardiff	10	0	10	20
Bristol	LSE	10	0	10	20
Imperial D	Southampton	10	0	10	20
Binghamton C	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
Durham C	Edinburgh B	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh C	York	10	0	10	20
Sheffield A	Durham A	10	0	10	20
Sheffield B	Edinburgh D	10	0	10	20