Question
During the 2013 Chinese New Year’s Gala, Celine Dion performed a duet of this song with Sòng Zǔyīng. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Chinese folk song that opens with the melody [read slowly] “E, E-G-A-C-C-A-G,” as the narrator observes a “beautiful” one of the title objects.
ANSWER: “Mò Lì Huā” (“mwuh lee hwah”) [or “Jasmine Flower”]
[10e] After he was gifted a music box with Chinese melodies, Giacomo Puccini based the musical theme for this character on “Mò Li Huā.” This title princess of Puccini’s last opera gives a deadly challenge of three riddles to win her hand in marriage.
ANSWER: Turandot
[10m] The melody of “Mò Lì Huā” is also quoted in this contemporary Chinese composer’s Symphony 1997. This composer of the Water Concerto scored the films Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
ANSWER: Tán Dùn
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 75% | 13% | 38% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| BU | Brandeis A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Boston College B | Bowdoin B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brandeis B | Bowdoin A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Amherst | Clark House | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard | Tufts A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT | Clark Wilson | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Tufts B | Boston College A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale | Bowdoin C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |