Question
The “rather exaggerated” customs of a character in this story include his repetition of the personal motto of “strictness, strictness, and always strictness!” Co-workers of this story’s protagonist make a “trifling” collection for him after mocking him for supposedly dating his landlady. A character in this story develops a fever after being berated by an official referred to only as the Person of (*) Consequence. The protagonist of this story is a copyist who is mugged on his way back from a party, depriving him of an item that he paid Petrovich 150 rubles to make. For 10 points, Akaky Akakievich (“ah-KAH-kee ah-KAH-kee-vitch”) haunts St. Petersburg in search of the title lost article of clothing in what Nikolai Gogol story? ■END■
ANSWER: “The Overcoat” [or “The Cloak” or “The Mantle”; or “Shinyél”]
<Michael Bentley, Literature - European - Short Fiction> ~24811~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
= Average correct buzz position
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 94% | 34% | 0% | 67.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
---|---|---|---|---|
Costas Pavlou | Detroit Country Day | Rockford Auburn A | 19 | 20 |
Nick Murray | Detroit Catholic Central A | Dallas County | 22 | 20 |
Abigail Lee | Thomas Jefferson C | Chattahoochee A | 22 | 20 |
Krish Chinta | Innovation Academy A | Chattahoochee B | 22 | 20 |
Elliott Lee | Thomas Jefferson A | Barrington A | 27 | 0 |
Nathan Wu | Plymouth | Richard Montgomery | 27 | 0 |
Abigail AuYeung | Hinsdale Central | Winston Churchill B | 38 | 20 |
Brodie Henry | West Point | Hunter B | 41 | 20 |
Cindy Gao | Belmont | Kinkaid | 41 | 0 |
Evan Lin | Woodland | Mira Loma | 41 | 20 |
Monit Karmaker | Stevenson A | Carbondale | 43 | 20 |
Omkar Marathe | William Fremd | Winston Churchill A | 43 | 20 |
Camden Williams | Mexico | Irvington A | 46 | 20 |
Evan Schleck | Hunter A | University Lab | 55 | 0 |
Chris Yoo | Thomas Jefferson B | Canyon Crest | 56 | 20 |
Alex Stumbur | Dunbar | Maggie Walker A | 61 | 0 |
Timothy Porter | Maggie Walker A | Dunbar | 61 | 20 |
Ali Hamzeh | Kinkaid | Belmont | 63 | 10 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Troy | Johns Creek A | 63 | 10 |
Bryce Cruise | Heights | Parkway West | 63 | 10 |
Sam Asplund | Winnebago | Maggie Walker C | 63 | 10 |
Kritanu Saha | Mercer County | Waukee | 63 | 0 |
Brandon Torres | Carl Sandburg | New Brighton | 65 | 10 |
Dominic Apap | Detroit Catholic Central B | Hoover B | 67 | 10 |
Charles Young | Barrington A | Thomas Jefferson A | 68 | 10 |
Rachel Ezrielev | Richard Montgomery | Plymouth | 71 | 10 |
Joy An | Choate Rosemary Hall | Northmont A | 74 | 10 |
Bharathi Kancharla | Maggie Walker B | Northmont B | 81 | 10 |
Joseph Harrison | Detroit Catholic Central C | Washington | 86 | 10 |
Kyan van Beek | Lake Highland | Moberly | 89 | 10 |
Arjun Kala | University Lab | Hunter A | 89 | 10 |
Rohan Dalal | Johns Creek B | Thomas Jefferson D | 90 | 10 |
Charles Heydt | Midtown | Walter Payton | 91 | 10 |
Brielle Rach | Rockford Auburn B | John Adams A | 94 | 0 |
David Bertolasi | Belvidere | Norris | 97 | 10 |
Rohan Navaneetha | Solon | St. Mark's | 99 | 10 |
Kaitlyn Leonard | Barrington B | Lincoln-Way East | 99 | 10 |
Grace Sun | Stevenson B | Norman | 109 | 10 |
Varun Venkatagiri | Innovation Academy B | John Adams B | 113 | 10 |
Thomas Belcher | Saint Joseph | Elkhorn North | 116 | 0 |
Safal Sapkota | Elkhorn North | Saint Joseph | 116 | 0 |
Anna Rosato | John Adams A | Rockford Auburn B | 117 | 10 |