drums - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

These objects were made from bronze using the lost-wax casting method, and the decorations on one discovered at Ngoc Lu (“nyock loo”) include the Lạc bird. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these objects whose manufacture by one mainland culture influenced local varieties like Bali’s Moon of Pejeng. Another variety of these objects called taiko was first made in Japan during the Kofun period.

ANSWER: drums [prompt on musical instruments]

[10h] The Ngoc Lu drum was made by this culture that inhabited the Red River Delta in modern-day Vietnam. Ma Yuan turned some of this culture’s drums into a pair of bronze horses after the defeat of the Trưng sisters.

ANSWER: Đông Sơn [or Dongsonian; prompt on Lạc Việt]

[10e] Decorative motifs on Đông Sơn drums often included depictions of people threshing this staple crop, which was grown in flooded paddies in the “wet” method of cultivation.

ANSWER: rice [or Oryza sativa]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	20.00	100%	92%	8%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	18.75	100%	63%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	11	17.27	100%	64%	9%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%

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Berkeley D	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
UCSD B	UC Irvine	10	0	10	20
Arizona State	UC Santa Barbara	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	UCSD A	10	0	10	20
UCSD C	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10
Toronto G	Brock	10	0	10	20
Carleton University	Guelph	10	10	10	30
McMaster B	Western B	10	0	10	20
Toronto C	McGill B	10	0	10	20
Toronto D	Toronto F	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
UBC A	Ottawa	10	0	10	20
Waterloo B	UBC B	10	0	10	20
Waterloo A	Queen's	10	0	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Western A	0	0	10	10
Western C	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
Central Florida A	Florida B	0	10	10	20
Florida A	Central Florida B	10	0	10	20
Central Florida C	Florida C	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	CWRU B	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	CWRU A	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Ohio State C	Michigan State	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	McMaster A	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	NC State B	0	0	10	10
NC State A	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
North Carolina B	James Madison A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	William and Mary	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	Wake Forest	10	0	10	20
South Carolina B	Duke	10	0	10	20
North Carolina C	James Madison B	10	0	10	20
Chicago C	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Illinois B	Northwestern D	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Illinois C	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Chicago E	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech A	Carleton College	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	Claremont	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
Washington B	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Murray State A	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Illinois A	Indiana C	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Alabama B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Bruin	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee	10	0	10	20
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt B	10	0	10	20
WashU A	Louisville B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	WashU B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	City St. George's	10	0	10	20
LSE	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
Imperial B	Manchester	10	0	10	20
Cambridge A	Montpellier	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Southampton B	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Cardiff	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh A	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Georgetown	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Cornell A	0	0	0	0
Catholic	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore	John Jay	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Binghamton B	RIT	0	0	10	10
Penn State	Cornell B	10	0	10	20
Cornell C	Rochester	10	0	10	20