Question
A poem from this country was embroidered on a silk screen in a 29' x 29' grid, to which the word for “heart” was later added in the middle. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country where “reversible poems” became popular because its logographic script made writing easier. Du Fu was a poet from this modern-day country.
ANSWER: China [or Republic of China; or People’s Republic of China; or Zhongguo]
[10h] This Chinese poet wrote an 841-character palindromic poem alternatively titled “Star Gauge” or “Picture of the Turning Sphere,” supposedly to convince her husband to return to her after taking another wife.
ANSWER: Su Hui [or Ruolan]
[10m] Michèle Métail collected Chinese reversible poems in a collection titled for “[these animals] Returning.” Mary Oliver titled a poem that begins, “You do not have to be good” for these animals.
ANSWER: wild geese [or Wild Geese Returning]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois A | Illinois C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana B | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Minnesota | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Notre Dame B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame C | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois B | SIUE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |