Packet 7: Bonus 15

At a trial called by her husband, this character forgives the daughter of a minister who had earlier made her into a household slave. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character who titles an 1820 epic poem. After jumping into a river, this character is rescued by two fishermen, after which she is reunited with her first love, the scholar Kim.
ANSWER: Kieu (“KEE-oo”) [or Vuong Thuy Kieu; accept Truyện Kiều or The Tale of Kieu]
[10e] The Tale of Kieu is written in the Vietnamese lục bát (“look baht”) form, in which lines of six syllables alternate with lines of this many syllables. This is the number of syllables in a single line of iambic tetrameter.
ANSWER: eight
[10m] Throughout the poem, Kieu plays one of these musical instruments. This sort of instrument titles both a Yuan-dynasty nánxì (“nahn-shee”) play by Gāo Míng and an epic of the Soninke people also titled for Prince Gassire (“guh-SEER”).
ANSWER: lute [or pipa or đàn nguyệt or yueqin or ruan; accept mandolin; accept Gassire’s Lute; accept Tale of the Pipa or Pípa jì; prompt on plucked string instrument]
<Bruin, World Literature> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownIllinois A1010020HE
CambridgeColumbia A1010020HE
Chicago ATexas010010E
Georgia Tech BUCLA010010E
Johns HopkinsStanford B010010E
MITCornell0101020EM
Maryland AColumbia B0101020EM
MichiganChicago B0101020EM
MinnesotaVirginia Tech001010M
NYU ANorthwestern B0101020EM
NYU BIndiana010010E
Northwestern AGeorgia Tech C001010M
Ohio StateSwarthmore010010E
PittsburghWaterloo010010E
Stanford AToronto B010010E
Toronto APenn State010010E
UC Berkeley BVanderbilt0101020EM
UCFBritish Columbia10101030HEM
VirginiaNorth Carolina010010E
WashUHarvard0000

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2014.0085%40%15%