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■
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 100% | 7% | 20% | 132.87 |