Admonition - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. A woman kneels in front of an empty table in the second scene of this painting, which also has a scene in which a woman rushes towards a bear. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this painting intended to advise women in the imperial court of Empress Jia, created by Gu Kaizhi (“kai-jurr”).

ANSWER: Admonition [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, Admonitions Scroll; accept Admonitions of the Court Instructress; accept Nüshi zhen tu]

[10e] Admonitions is a painting in this format, another of which is Zhang Zeduan’s panoramic painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival. Chinese paintings in this format were often done on long pieces of silk or paper.

ANSWER: scrolls [accept hanging scrolls; accept handscrolls]

[10m] The Admonitions scroll has been argued to have been created during this dynasty, which included an artist who developed the technique of “pomo.” Ink was used to create images of marine life by this dynasty’s “Southern School”

ANSWER: Tang dynasty (The artist is Wang Wei.)

<EW, Painting and Sculpture>

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	0%	67%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	6.67	56%	11%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	5.56	56%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	10.00	67%	22%	11%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
McGill A	UBC B	0	0	10	10
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Florida C	0	10	10	20
William and Mary	Duke	0	10	10	20
NC State B	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	NC State A	0	0	0	0
VCU	South Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Virginia	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago B	0	0	0	0
Chicago C	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Chicago D	Purdue B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame B	Chicago E	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Illinois C	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Northwestern D	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Indiana C	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
James Madison A	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
James Madison B	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Brown	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
MIT	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Southern Connecticut State	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
Yale	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Carleton College	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Iowa State	0	0	0	0
Minnesota A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	Washington A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Murray State A	0	10	10	20
Texas A&M A	Texas B	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Bruin	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Sewanee	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
LSE	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Durham	City St. George's	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	UCL	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	NYU A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	NYU C	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Maryland C	Swarthmore	0	0	0	0
John Jay	Catholic	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Georgetown	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Vassar	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
RIT	Cornell B	0	0	0	0