Question
Korean hojakdo paintings depict magpies alongside goofy drawings of these other animals meant to satirize the ruling elite. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these animals, one of which cowers in a bush from a lightning strike in an Henri Rousseau painting sometimes titled Surprised!
ANSWER: tigers [accept Siberian tigers; prompt on cats]
[10m] In the 1800s, a Korean still-life craze centered on trompe l'oeil ("tromp loy") still lifes of teapots and clocks along with these objects. Thousands of meaningless glyphs appear in a Xu Bing ("shoo beeng") installation titled for one of these things.
ANSWER: book [accept bookshelves or bookcases; accept chaek or chaekgeori; accept Book from the Sky; accept shu or Tianshu; reject "scrolls"]
[10e] A 17th-century "Koreanization" of this genre of painting away from Chinese subjects was led by Jeong Seon. Ink shan shui paintings in this genre in China depicted natural sites like rivers and mountains.
ANSWER: landscapes
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 13.57 | 88% | 19% | 29% |