Bonus
This event leads an author to move to a totalitarian version of Atlanta in John Trefry’s novel Massive, which imitates the style of Arno Schmidt. For 10 points each:
[10h] A 2023 Ismail Kadare (“kah-dah-RAY”) novel gives 13 accounts of a phone call informing Boris Pasternak of what event? After this event, its subject wrote the Voronezh Notebooks, whose memorization is recounted in the memoir Hope Against Hope.
ANSWER: the arrest of Osip Mandelstam (“mandel-STAHM”) [accept the exile of Osip Mandelstam; prompt on arrest or exile by asking “of which author?”; reject answers mentioning “gulags”]
[10e] The title of Kadare’s A Dictator Calls refers to this man, who rolls “executions on his tongue like berries” in the “Epigram” that got Mandelstam arrested.
ANSWER: Joseph Stalin [or Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin; or Ioseb Dzhugashvili; accept “Stalin Epigram”]
[10m] The opening line of Nadezhda Mandelstam’s Hope Without Hope recalls how Osip rushed back to Moscow fearing his arrest after slapping a member of this family. That writer from this family wrote science fiction novels like Aelita.
ANSWER: Tolstoy [accept Aleksei Nikolayevich Tolstoy]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Waterloo A | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |