Question
A 64th-generation descendant of Confucius, Kǒng Shàngrèn, depicted the collapse of the Ming dynasty in a lengthy play titled for one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these accessories typically held in the right hand by noh actors, who open them while speaking.
ANSWER: fans
[10m] In the Kǒng play, Fragrant Princess’s fan is splattered with blood while she escapes Nanking, inspiring an artist to paint it with these title flowers. A play by Stan Lai adapts Táo Qián’s fable about a paradise named for a “spring” of these flowers.
ANSWER: peach blossoms [or peach flowers; accept Táohuā shàn, Táohuā Yuán Jì, or Secret Love for the Peach Blossom Spring]
[10h] In The Peach Blossom Fan, the characters put on the play Swallow Letter in this sort of place, where two men fight in the dark in the celebrated short play Sān Chà Kǒu. Wǔ Sōng escapes from one of these places at Cross Slope in an oft-adapted episode of The Water Margin.
ANSWER: inns [or taverns; accept inn room; accept Crowing Cock Inn; prompt on bedrooms with “in what sort of building?”]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 13.33 | 80% | 40% | 13% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Les Missourables | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | We Need New Names | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| var merchants | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |