Packet 3: Bonus 3
This season often causes the Lí River to flood in Guìlín (“GWAY-lin”) and makes Héféi (“huh-fay”), Guǎngzhōu, and Shànghǎi among China’s rainiest cities. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this East Asian equivalent of the monsoon. This rainy season is named for the ripening of a fruit whose blossom is one of the “four gentlemen” and “three friends of winter.”
ANSWER: plum rains [or yellow plum rains; or huáng méi yǔ; or bai-u or tsu-yu; or changma-chul or jangma-cheol]
[10e] Though not one of China’s “Three Furnaces,” this island’s capital of Hǎikǒu (“high-ko”) is often the country’s hottest and wettest city during the plum rains. This southernmost province has a tropical monsoon climate.
ANSWER: Hǎinán [or variants of Hoi-naam, Hói-nàm, Hái-lâm, Hái-nâm, or Hāi-nàng; accept Qióngyá, Ch’iung-ya, Khêng, Kìhng ngàaih, King-ngaai, Qióngzhōu, Ch’iung-chou, Kìhng jāu, King-zau, Zhūyá, Chu-ya, Jhuyá, Jyū ngàaih, or Zyu-ngaai]
[10h] When Hōnshu receives the plum rains, little rain falls on these islands nicknamed the “Galápagos of the East.” The Izu and Mariana Islands form a volcanic arc with this tropical archipelago near Iwo Jima.
ANSWER: Bonin Islands [or Ogasawara Islands; accept Archbishop Islands or Islas del Arzobispo; accept Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc; prompt on Nanpō Islands]
<Editors, Geography> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 15.71 | 95% | 43% | 19% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Chicago B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Columbia A | North Carolina | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Columbia B | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Cornell | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Georgetown | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Harvard | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Johns Hopkins | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| NYU A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | Pittsburgh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern A | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Penn State | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | UCF | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Stanford A | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley A | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 15.71 | 95% | 43% | 19% |