Question
In the short story “The Man Who Ended History,” Lillian time travels to learn her aunt’s fate during this historical event. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this historical event, the setting of a novella about a group of drama students who plan to assassinate a leader in this event, only for one of them to fall in love with him and warn him of the plan while buying a diamond ring.
ANSWER: Second Sino-Japanese War [accept Japanese occupation of China or equivalents like the Japanese invasion of China; accept the Wang Jingwei regime or anything indicating a Japananese puppet state in China; prompt on World War II in China or the Second World War or WW2]
[10e] Weili escapes the rape of Nanking in The Kitchen God’s Wife, a novel by this author who wrote about four Chinese immigrant families in The Joy Luck Club.
ANSWER: Amy Tan [or Amy Ruth Tan]
[10m] An author with this surname set Lust, Caution and Love in a Fallen City during Japan’s occupation of China. Ken Liu dedicated “The Man Who Ended History” to a journalist with this surname who wrote The Rape of Nanking.
ANSWER: Chang [or Zhāng; accept Iris Chang or Iris Shun-Ru Chang; accept Eileen Chang or Zhāng Àilíng or Chang Ai-ling]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vanderbilt A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |