Anton Chekhov - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

Answer the following about duels in Russian literature, for 10 points each.

[10e] In this author’s novella The Duel, the Darwinian zoologist Von Koren tries to kill his nemesis. This Russian playwright also wrote The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya.

ANSWER: Anton Chekhov

[10h] Alexander Pushkin’s death in a duel was lamented in “Death of a Poet”, a poem by this “Poet of the Caucasus”. Pechorin and Grushnitsky duel in this author’s novel A Hero of Our Time.

ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov

[10m] The nihilist Bazarov leaves Marino after being wounded in a duel with Nikolai, the uncle of his friend Kirsanov, in this novel by Ivan Turgenev.

ANSWER: Fathers and Sons [or Otcy i deti or Fathers and Children]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	10.00	78%	11%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	9	15.56	100%	56%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	12.50	88%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	9	16.67	89%	67%	11%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%

Data


UCLA A	Claremont C	10	0	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont A	10	0	0	10
USC	UCLA B	10	10	10	30
UCLA E	Claremont B	10	0	0	10
UCSD	UCLA C	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	Cornell E	10	0	10	20
Binghamton C	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	Cornell A	0	0	0	0
Cornell C	Cornell D	10	0	0	10
ESF	Cornell F	10	0	0	10
Penn State	U of Rochester A	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Cornell G	10	0	0	10
Syracuse	RIT B	10	0	0	10
U of Rochester B	RIT C	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois C	10	0	0	10
Illinois D	Purdue C	10	0	10	20
Iowa A	WashU A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame A	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	Iowa B	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	SIUE	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	WashU B	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	Fordham A	10	0	10	20
Columbia J	Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Penn A	NYU A	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
Princeton A	Lehigh A	10	0	0	10
Lehigh B	Rowan A	0	0	0	0
Rutgers B	Bard A	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	Penn B	10	0	10	20
Jefferson County Scholars	Miami B	10	0	10	20
CWRU C	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
Michigan D	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Michigan State A	Miami C	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	West Virginia B	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
Miami A	Ohio State C	10	10	10	30
UW Envy	Alberta	10	0	0	10
UW Chastity	Arizona State A	10	0	0	10
UW Wrath	Arizona State B	10	0	10	20
UW Gluttony	UBC A	10	0	10	20
UW Greed	UBC B	0	0	0	0
UW Pride	UW Lust	10	0	0	10
Emory Oxford	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Auburn C	Georgia Tech E	0	0	0	0
Furman	Clemson A	10	0	10	20
Emory A	Auburn A	10	10	10	30
Georgia A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Mississippi State A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Southern	10	0	0	10
South Carolina B	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	Vanderbilt B	10	0	10	20
Appalachian State A	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
Appalachian State B	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
UNC A	James Madison A	10	0	0	10
NC State	James Madison B	10	0	10	20
VCU	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Duke A	Tusculum	10	0	0	10
Virginia	UNC B	10	0	0	10
UNC C	UNC D	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	William & Mary	10	0	10	20
West Virginia A	Michigan C	0	0	0	0