Question
A literary movement that formed after this historical event included a poet who wrote that “Debasement is the password of the base” in his poem “The Answer.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this historical event that led to the creation of the literary journal Today, which published poems by the Misty Poets who often wrote about the “sent-down youth.”
ANSWER: Cultural Revolution [or Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; or Wénhuà dàgémìng]
[10e] The Misty Poets, who rejected the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution, reacted to a Wu Shuteh propaganda poem about how the moon “follows the earth,” which hints back to this poet's “Quiet Night Thought.”
ANSWER: Li Bai [or Li Po]
[10m] The Misty Poets' journal Jintian was resurrected in this country for expatriate Chinese writers. The line “It was before the time of the radio masts” opens a poem by an author from this European country, Tomas Tranströmer.
ANSWER: Sweden [or Kingdom of Sweden; or Konungariket Sverige]
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 67% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 50% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 83% | 67% | 50% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 0% | 25% |
Data
| Stanford | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |