Question
Wolfgang von Kempelen created a fraudulent chess-playing automaton that required a mechanical person named for this ethnicity to function. For 10 points each:
[10e] Eighteenth-century orientalists were fascinated with the carpet-making and fashion of what ethnicity's Ottoman Empire?
ANSWER: Turkish [accept the Mechanical Turk]
[10h] This Sultan of the South Indian kingdom of Mysore owned a near-life-size automaton of a tiger mauling a European man. This successor of Hyder Ali pioneered rocketry in the third Anglo-Mysore war.
ANSWER: Tipu Sultan
[10m] Xiao Xun ("sh'YOW SHOON") claimed that the Hongwu Emperor found automata in the shape of tigers and dragons when destroying the palaces in this Chinese dynasty's capital of Khanbaliq.
ANSWER: Yuan dynasty [or the Yuan empire; or the Great Yuan; or Dà Yuán; or Yuáncháo; or Yeke Yuwan Ulus]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 17.22 | 100% | 39% | 33% |