Packet 8: Bonus 11

Answer the following about cartoons showcased at the Museum of Pop Culture’s exhibit Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form, for 10 points each.
[10e] Prayoon Chanyavongs’s satirical cartoons drew on his country’s tradition of pulp comics nicknamed for costing just one unit of this Thai currency, which is abbreviated THB.
ANSWER: baht [accept one-baht comics]
[10m] Filipino comics are sometimes traced back to José Rizal illustrating a fable about a monkey and one of these animals. Urashima Tarō saves one of these aquatic animals in a tale often cited as a precursor of manga’s isekai genre.
ANSWER: turtles [accept sea turtles or other specific kinds of turtle; accept chelonians; accept “The Monkey and the Turtle” or “Ang Pagong at ang Matsing” or “Si Pagong at si Matsing”; prompt on reptiles or herps; reject “tortoises”]
[10h] Indian cartoonist R. K. Laxman (“locksh-MAHN”) created this iconic character who personifies everyday struggles. This mascot of Pune’s (“POO-nay’s”) Symbiosis International appears in Salman Rushdie’s novel The Moor’s Last Sigh.
ANSWER: the Common Man
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BruinGeorgia Tech A100010E
CambridgePittsburgh1010020EM
Chicago BGeorgetown1010020EM
Columbia ANYU A1010020EM
Columbia BMichigan100010E
CornellNorth Carolina1010020EM
HarvardToronto A1010020EM
Illinois ABritish Columbia1010020EM
MITGeorgia Tech C100010E
MinnesotaTexas1010020EM
NYU BVirginia1010020EM
Northwestern AIndiana1010020EM
Northwestern BPurdue100010E
Ohio StateGeorgia Tech B100010E
Penn StateStanford B100010E
RutgersJohns Hopkins100010E
Stanford AChicago A100010E
SwarthmoreMaryland B100010E
UC Berkeley AMaryland A100010E
UCFBrown010010M
UCLAVanderbilt1010020EM
Virginia TechUC Berkeley B1010020EM
WashUToronto B100010E
WaterlooIllinois B100010E

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2414.5896%50%0%