Question
Characters who met at a tavern bring a black bull and white horse to this place at the beginning of a novel whose opening lines note that what’s “long divided, must unite” and what’s “long united, must divide.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this place where those three men agree to die “on the same day, in the same month, in the same year.”
ANSWER: peach garden [or táoyuán; accept Oath of the Peach Garden or Peach Garden Oath or Táoyuán Jiéyì; prompt on garden or yuán]
[10e] Liú Bèi, Guān Yǔ, and Zhāng Fēi become blood brothers after swearing the Peach Garden Oath in a Luó Guànzhōng novel about the Romance of this period of Chinese history.
ANSWER: Three Kingdoms period [or Sānguó; accept Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Sānguó yǎnyì]
[10h] While being treated for a poison arrow wound, Guān Yǔ pretends to be unhurt by doing this activity. In another novel, a six month-long instance of this activity is interrupted by an elderly participant’s stay at St. Luke’s Hospital.
ANSWER: playing Go [or playing wéiqí or playing baduk] (The novel is The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata.)
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Summary
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| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 38% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 89% | 22% | 0% |
Data
| Bristol B | Birmingham | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LSE A | Cambridge A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Bristol A | Cambridge D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LSE B | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham B | Oxford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Cambridge C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southhampton B | Manchester | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick A | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |