Question
A divine celebration in one of these locations where a fairy refuses a request to make the earth’s flowers bloom all at once opens Li Ruzhen (“lee roo-jin”)’s novel Flowers in the Mirror. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this kind of place where three warriors swear an oath of brotherhood in the first chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
ANSWER: peach garden [accept peach garden oath or Táoyuán Sān Jiéyì]
[10h] In Flowers in the Mirror, this person forces the spirits into making all flowers bloom, leading to the Fairy of a Hundred Flowers being reincarnated as punishment. Robert van Gulik cut what he deemed an irrelevant pornographic passage depicting this person with a priest, in a translation of a subordinate’s Celebrated Cases.
ANSWER: Empress Wu [or Wu Zetian; or Wu Zhao; or Wu Mei] (The book translated by van Gulik was the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee / Dí Gōng Àn, in which Dee solves “Four Great Strange Cases of Empress Wu's Reign.”)
[10m] This character from another novel is exiled from heaven for breaking a crystal goblet during a peach banquet. This character is often depicted wearing a necklace consisting of nine of his victims’ skulls.
ANSWER: Shā Wùjìng [or Sandy; or Monk Sha; or Shā Sēng; or Friar Sand; or Sha Gojō; or Sa Oh Jeong; or Sa Ngộ Tịnh; or Sa Tăng; or Sua Cheng]
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Stanford+ | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Cry of the Common Loon | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |