Finale Challenges: Where in China is Sun Wukong, Labors of Hercules, A Story of Your Own

Journey to the West is one of the most well known novels and works of mythology in all of history. While it deals with the journey of a Buddhist Monk named Xuanzang going on a fetch quest for some sacred texts, the most well known character is the Monkey King, Sun Wukong. Known for their brashness and agility, most of the early chapters of the novel deal exclusively with the exploits of Sun Wukong. One such story is when he was put in charge of watching over the Jade Emperor's garden of peaches of immortality. Unfortunately, impulsively Sun Wukong then proceeded to eat all the peaches, crash a nearby festival and eat all of Lao Tzu's pills of immortality before running away. Predictably this led to the Jade Emperor sending the entire army of heaven on a search for the Monkey King.

Similarly, today you will all be searching for Sun Wukong, in a way similar to the popular video game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? You will be using word filters to travel to different locations in China in pursuit of the mischievous monkey king. Be careful though, if you head down the wrong path you'll have to retrace your steps before going down the right one. At each new location you will be offered the choice of a piece of trivia from one of 3 categories. Each question will have 1 correct answer and a number of incorrect answers. The correct answer will lead you to the next location, the incorrect answers will require you to head back and try a different answer. From beginning to end there will be 10 locations, and questions will get more difficult as you get closer to the Monkey King. Once you select a question for a round you may not swap categories. You must answer a question from each category at least twice during your challenge and you may not use any category MORE than 3 times in a row on your path.


The 3 categories will be revealed when you fill out this form to start your time. You will be allowed to use google and other resources to study the trivia categories and create a note sheet, but you will only be allowed to have the note sheet up when you complete the challenge. You may study use up to 2 hours to study but no more.

When you are done studying to begin you will fill out this form to given the word filter to the first image.

The player who uses the fewest images to get to Sun Wukong (with ties broken by time from the first form to final image) will win this challenge, and automatically advance to Part 3. The other two will compete in Part 2, to be revealed after this.

You have 24 hours to start, and if everyone finishes early, we may reveal results early.


Time Expectations: This challenge should take ninety minutes to complete after studying, maximum.
Communication: You may not discuss this challenge with anyone.