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Question

During this country’s Rocket Festival, participants fire black powder rockets into the air while also listening to the Epic of the Toad King who waged war against the sky to bring back the rain. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this country whose native epics include the Sang Sinxay. Similar to a neighboring country’s Ramakien epic, this country’s variant of the Ramayana features and is named for the protagonists Phra Lak and Phra Ram.

ANSWER: Laos [or Lao People’s Democratic Republic; or Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao; or Mueang Lao]

[10e] In the Laotian Ramayana, this figure slits the belly of the Ousouphalad Ox to heal his father, Phra Ram, with its droppings. In the Cambodian Reamker, this monkey god falls in love with a mermaid while building a causeway.

ANSWER: Hanuman [or Houlaman; accept Maruti; accept Bajrangabali; accept Anjaneya]

[10m] In another scene, Houlaman seeks out an antidote to his father’s illness from the pillow of these beings. Garuda acts as an adversary to these beings, whose kings include Vasuki and Shesha.

ANSWER: nāga [or nagini; accept nagaraja; prompt on snakes or serpents]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	89%	22%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	75%	75%	13%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	17.14	86%	71%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	92%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	10.00	63%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	50%	50%	0%

Data


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