Packet 1: Tossup 19

A rhyming list of this province’s “Eighteen Oddities” advertises large mosquitoes, eggs sold in grass nets, and its karst Stone Forest. The (15[1])world’s most productive tobacco industry is mostly supplied by this province. Prized mushrooms like the ganba (15[1])grow among the “Three Parallel Rivers” (15[2])of this (15[1])province’s (15[5]-5[2])climate-diverse northwest. (15[1])Land reclamation in this province has filled in part of (*) Diān Lake. (10[1])Growers around this province’s Jǐngmài Mountain (10[1])developed a fermented product that is compressed into cakes (10[1])and named for its town (-5[1])of Pu’er. (10[2]-5[3])Kūnmíng (10[2])is the (10[1])capital (10[3])of (10[1])this (10[1])province, (10[3])where (10[1])a majority of Bái and about half of (10[1])all Yí people live, along (10[1])with Guìzhōu (“gway joh”) to the northeast and Sìchuān to the north. (10[2])For 10 points, a plurality of China’s tea comes from what mountainous province on the southwestern border with Myanmar? (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[5])

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