Question
A god of these events is depicted as a hunchbacked man standing on a turtle and balancing a ladle of stars with his other foot. The attendants “Heaven Deaf” and “Earth Mute” could assist during these events. An idiom associates these events with carp who swim up a waterfall to reach the Dragon Gate. After bashing his own brains out due to one of these events, a man became a god who is followed by a flock of five bats and rescued Yang Guifei’s (“yong gway-fay’s”) perfume bag in a dream of Emperor Xuanzong (“shwen-dzong”) as the commander of an army of 80,000 (*) ghost-hunting demons. Success in one of these events opens the “Yellow Millet Dream” of Lü Dongbin. During these events, men carrying the Four Treasures wrapped in bamboo mats might be searched for silk sheets covered in miniscule writing as they tried to become jinshi (“JEEN-shurr”). For 10 points, name these events used to fill imperial China’s bureaucracy. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 100% | 7% | 20% | 132.87 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ryan Westbrook | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 53 | -5 |
Justin Hawkins | We Need New Names | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 70 | 15 |
Jason Shi | The Dyatlov Passement incident | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 107 | 10 |
Jeremy Tsai | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | BHSU B | 115 | 10 |
Charles Hang | Les Missourables | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 115 | 10 |
Will Alston | LMM's LLM MLM | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 117 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | var merchants | 122 | -5 |
Richard Yu | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 123 | 10 |
Richard Niu | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 136 | -5 |
Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 142 | 10 |
Arya Karthik | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | The Oldest Men in the World | 142 | 10 |
Lou | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 143 | 10 |
Naveed Chowdhury | Lisan al-Quib | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 145 | 10 |
Daniel Ma | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 150 | 10 |
Iain Carpenter | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 156 | 10 |
Azura Gollamudi | var merchants | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 156 | 10 |
Akshar Goyal | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 156 | 10 |
Jorrest Weintraub | The Jeam Team | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 156 | 10 |