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

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