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Round 1: Tossup 12

These visual elements were drawn on an artist’s body and face in the 1998 piece 1/2 (“one-half”) and the 2000 piece Family Tree. Four of these visual elements make up the rightmost section of the painting The Remaining Mountain. A goose-loving artist drew these elements using a set of “eight principles.” (10[1])These elements make up an artwork that immortalizes a drinking contest at the “Orchard Pavilion.” (10[1])In the 1980s, an artist made (10[1])4,000 carvings that resemble these elements for his installation A Book From the Sky. (-5[1])Artists often train by copying a thousand of these elements that comprise a “classic” set drawn by Wang Xizhi (“wong shee-jurr”), who (10[1])used the “four treasures of study” to draw them in styles like “regular” and “semi-cursive.” For 10 points, name these symbols (10[1])stroked with ink in Chinese calligraphy. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Chinese characters [or Chinese letters; accept Chinese words or Chinese names; accept zì or Hànzì or kanji or Hanja or Hancha or Hán tự; accept sinograms or Chinese logograms; accept Chinese calligraphy until read; accept Chinese text or Chinese writing; prompt on text, writing, or scripts; prompt on scrolls by asking “what was drawn on the scrolls?”] (The two performance pieces are by Zhang Huan. The Remaining Mountain is the first half of the painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains. Wang Xizhi drew on the “Eight Principles of Yong” and is sometimes credited with composing the Thousand Character Classic. A Book From the Sky is by Xu Bing.)
<AP, Other Fine Arts> | Packet-A_Liberty-A_Rutgers-A_Toronto-C_UBC_Waterloo-B
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Roxanne TangOhio State AMichigan C4910
Elizabeth WallaceKenyonMichigan B6410
Todd MaslykMichigan AMichigan D7010
Anton AkroushMichigan StateCarnegie Mellon A84-5
Joshua GarnerOhio State BCase Western A10410
Anthony YinCase Western BCarnegie Mellon B12510
Ryan JudgeCarnegie Mellon AMichigan State13210

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
California2025-02-01✓3100%0%92.33
Florida2025-02-01✓3100%0%107.67
Great Lakes2025-02-01✓6100%17%90.67
Midwest2025-02-01✓6100%33%109.67
North2025-02-01✓3100%33%114.33
Northeast2025-02-01✓5100%20%101.40
Overflow2025-02-01✓5100%0%108.60
South Central2025-02-01✓2100%0%87.00
Southeast2025-02-01✓4100%50%115.25
UK2025-02-01✓10100%10%102.20
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓8100%13%90.00
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓3100%33%116.33