Packet 5: Bonus 5
The speaker hopes to reunite with friends in a “Cloudy River in the Sky” at the end of a poem about using this substance. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this substance which in the beginning of that poem featuring the moon and the speaker’s shadow, is used “under the flowering trees.”
ANSWER: wine [prompt on alcohol]
[10e] This Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty described consuming wine in his poem “Drinking Alone by Moonlight.” This poet also wrote “Quiet Night Thought.”
ANSWER: Li Bai [or Li Po or Li Bo or Li Taibai or Rihaku or Qinglian Jushi]
[10h] One poem in this collection by a different author compares wine to purple feet and topaz blood. The line "beauty is twice beauty" appears in a poem from this collection describing a gift knitted by Maru Mori.
ANSWER: Elemental Odes [or Elementary Odes or Odas Elementales] (by Pablo Neruda, the unnamed poem is “Ode to My Socks”)
<Literature - World, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 05
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 16.36 | 91% | 57% | 16% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |