thinking of Lǐ Bái - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

A poem titled for performing this action “on a Spring Day” describes an “unrivaled” man with whom the speaker hopes to debate poetry and prose. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this action that titles a poem set “at the End of the Sky” in which the speaker asks “What time will the wild goose come?” and what “occupies the gentleman’s mind?”

ANSWER: thinking of Lǐ Bái [accept equivalents like remembering in place of “thinking”; accept Li Po or Li Bo or Lǐ Tàibái or Rihaku or Qīnglián Jūshì in place of “Lǐ Bái”; accept “Thinking of Lǐ Bái at the End of the Sky” or “Tiān mò huái Lǐ Bái”; accept “Thinking of Lǐ Bái on a Spring Day” or “Chūn rì yì Lǐ Bái”; prompt on thinking or huái or yì by asking “about what subject?”]

[10m] Both of those poems are by this friend of Lǐ Bái, who wrote of the “rumble and roll” of the title objects in the poem “Song of the Wagons.”

ANSWER: Dù Fǔ [or Tu Fu]

[10e] Both Lǐ Bái and Dù Fǔ were Táng Dynasty poets who wrote in this language.

ANSWER: Classical Chinese [or Literary Chinese; or zhōngwén; or hànyǔ]

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California	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.00	92%	58%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	18.00	100%	70%	10%
South Central	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	15.00	88%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley D	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley E	UCSC	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley F	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Claremont Scripps	USC	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCLA C	0	10	10	20
UCI	UCSB	0	0	10	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	0	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	10	20
Queen's A	Guelph B	0	10	10	20
Guelph A	Ottawa	0	10	10	20
Queen's B	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	McGill A	0	10	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Toronto F	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
Toronto H	McGill B	0	10	10	20
Toronto J	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Toronto K	Western Ontario	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Waterloo	McMaster C	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	McMaster A	0	0	10	10
UF A	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF C	0	10	10	20
UF B	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF E	ERAU B	0	0	10	10
Melbourne B	FSU	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
OSU B	CWRU D	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	Kenyon B	10	10	10	30
OSU A	MSU A	0	10	10	20
Pitt C	OSU C	0	0	10	10
MSU B	OSU D	0	0	10	10
CWRU C	Pitt B	0	0	10	10
Melbourne A	USF	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Clemson B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina C	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina B	Roanoke	0	10	10	20
Liberty C	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
Tusculum	Liberty B	0	10	10	20
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Virginia Tech A	Virginia B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
George Mason B	Johns Hopkins C	0	0	10	10
Penn A	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
George Washington B	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Catholic University	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	George Mason A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame E	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland D	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
UMBC A	Georgetown A	0	0	10	10
VCU A	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Lehigh B	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Rowan A	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	Princeton A	0	0	10	10
Truman State	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
WashU A	SIUE	0	10	10	20
WashU B	WashU D	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	William Woods	0	10	10	20
Rutgers C	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Notre Dame C	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Michigan D	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Chicago D	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
UIC	Purdue C	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	St. Thomas	0	10	10	20
Nebraska	Macalester B	0	10	10	20
Macalester A	Minnesota C	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Yale B	0	0	10	10
Alberta	Simon Fraser	0	0	10	10
British Columbia B	British Columbia A	0	0	10	10
British Columbia D	British Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Washington A	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Alberta B	Tulsa	0	0	10	10
UTD A	Arizona State A	0	0	10	10
McGill D	Arizona State B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern C	Ohio	0	0	0	0
Rose State	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Iowa	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Texas B	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	UCO	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Auburn A	Sewanee A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Bruin A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Mississippi State A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	UAB A	0	0	10	10
Huntsville A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Huntsville B	Auburn B	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Alabama B	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Warwick B	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Manchester B	Edinburgh B	0	10	10	20
RIT A	Cornell-DII	0	0	10	10
RIT B	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Syracuse	ESF	0	0	0	0