Cheng Pei-pei was a Shaw Brothers star in this genre, which developed stylized trampoline-and-wire choreography in the 1960s. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this genre of King Hu’s films Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen. These films typically feature roaming heroes who practice martial arts and swordplay.
ANSWER: wǔxiá [prompt on kung fu, gōngfu, or wǔshù]
[10h] Name these objects. Sensitivity is improved over traditional quantitative PCR by partitioning template DNA into thousands of these objects in digital PCR.
ANSWER: droplets [accept respiratory droplets; accept digital droplet PCR]
[10h] In A Touch of Zen, Hsu Feng spins through the air to dispatch two assassins in one of these places. Ang Lee paid homage to King Hu by filming a wire-work sword duel in one of these places in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
ANSWER: bamboo forest [or bamboo grove; prompt on forest or grove]
[10e] Face masks and N95 respirators function by blocking droplets containing infectious agents, such as this family of RNA viruses that includes the causative agent of COVID-19.
ANSWER: coronaviruses [or Coronaviridae; accept SARS-CoV-2]
[10e] This Wachowski sisters film helped bring Hong Kong “wire fu” to Hollywood. This 1999 film used slo-mo “bullet time” effects to depict fights in a simulated reality.
ANSWER: The Matrix
[10m] Mask use can reduce a pathogen’s R-nought, which must be one or higher for it to establish itself as one of these diseases. The common cold is this kind of infectious disease, which is constantly present at a baseline level in a population.
ANSWER: endemic diseases
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