Question
This explorer navigated using a strip map collected in a military treatise with a 24-point compass. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this explorer who legendarily brought back a giraffe from Malindi.
ANSWER: Zhèng Hé (“jung huh”) [or Ma He; accept Cheng-ho; prompt on Zheng]
[10e] Zhèng Hé used the Máo Kūn map on his seven “treasure voyages” for this Chinese dynasty, which was succeeded by the Qīng dynasty.
ANSWER: Míng dynasty [or Míng China; accept Great Míng; accept the Míng treasure voyages]
[10h] The Wàn lì Emperor of the Míng dynasty commissioned two of this man’s companions to create a world atlas called the Zhifang Waiji (“jurr-fong why-jee”). This man created a Chinese map referred to as an “impossible black tulip.”
ANSWER: Matteo Ricci [or Matthaeus Riccius]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
Data
| Columbia A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Rowan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |