Question

A character in this novel feels “like a deaf man watching people dancing” during an orchestral fantasia of King Lear. In this novel, a vague comment from a French clairvoyant named Jules Landau prompts another character to refuse a divorce. After two proposals, Kostya Levin successfully marries Kitty in this novel. This novel opens by describing chaos in the Oblonsky household to exemplify its statement that “every unhappy family is unhappy (10[1])in its own way.” This novel’s title character throws herself under a freight (10[1]-5[1])train, deliberately mirroring (10[1])a rail worker’s death when she first met Count Vronsky. For 10 points, a Russian noblewoman titles what novel by Leo Tolstoy? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Anna Karenina [or Anna Karenin]
<Literature - European Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Vincent Zhang (DII)PennUniversity of Delaware A7010
Edward Zhou (DII)NYU ASwarthmore A83-5
Frank Paz (DII)Swarthmore ANYU A8310
Andrea Ladino (UG)NYU BSwarthmore B8610
Geoffrey Wu (UG)Columbia ARutgers10810
Mihir Shetty (UG)Columbia BUniversity of Delaware B10910

Summary

2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y5100%0%20%91.20