Question

An artist from this country painted a mustachioed man spinning a wheel to sharpen the title object to illustrate the “principle of glittering.” In another painting from this country, a disembodied hand points (10[1])to the right above a coffee cup and the text “T. 402,” (10[1])while wheels (-5[1])kick up billowing dust clouds. The (-5[1])painters of The Knife Grinder (10[1])and Cyclist (10[1])were part (-5[1])of (10[1])radical (-5[1])groups in this (10[2])country (10[1])called Hylea and Donkey’s Tail, (10[3])both (10[1])inspired (10[2])by its earlier Jack of Diamonds (10[1])group. (10[1])An artist from this country (10[1])painted a square with thin borders (10[1])offset at a slight angle (10[1])against (10[1])a white (10[1])background (10[3])in (10[1])White on White, (10[3])which is often (10[1])contrasted with his work Black Square. (10[1])For 10 points, what (10[1])non-Italian country was home to many Suprematist and Cubo-Futurist painters, including Kazimir Malevich? (-5[1])■END■ (10[7]0[7])

ANSWER: Russia [or Russian Empire or Rossiya or Rossiyskaya Imperiya; accept Soviet Union or USSR or SSSR or Soyuz Sovietskikh Sotsialichetskhikh Respublik; prompt on Ukraine by asking “what country was Ukraine a constituent part of at the time?”] (Cyclist is by Natalia Goncharova.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jem BurchYale BHarvard A3210
Andrew HannaPennRowan4410
Michael KohnDurham ABristol46-5
Andrei HuiCambridge COxford A52-5
Raymond WangCornell ACornell B5710
Halle FriedmanNYU AJohns Hopkins5910
Natan HoltzmanStanford BStanford A61-5
Enoch YuenImperial ASheffield6210
Giovanni Mazzeo (DII)Virginia A (UG)William & Mary A (UG)63-5
Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)Duke A (UG)6610
Jake RobertsDurham BCambridge A6610
Rahim DinaImperial BCambridge B6710
Nathaniel HullBerkeley ABerkeley C7210
Jim Fan (Grad)UNC A (Grad)JMU A (UG)7210
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AVanderbilt B7210
Jack ObermanSouth CarolinaAlabama7310
Audrey Cho (DII)HaverfordJohn Jay7410
Jack LewisMTSUGeorgia Tech B7410
Jason Qin (DII)Columbia CColumbia B8010
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghKiel8110
Joel MilesMinnesota BArizona State8610
Guy IndoranteIowa StateMinnesota C9210
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BStanford C9710
Cade ReinbergerRIT BBinghamton9810
Andrew EllisKentuckyGeorgia Tech A10010
Biyang Zhang (DII)Michigan BCedarville10110
Cooper Roh (DII)Columbia AVassar10110
Alessandro BogoKCLOxford B10110
Michael SunBrandeis BBrown A10210
Tom ScheriRIT ACornell C10510
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)Virginia B (UG)10510
Rohan Navaneetha (DII)Ohio State AKenyon10510
Matthew Lam (DII)Ohio State BMichigan C10810
Oscar SiddleWarwickOxford C11410
Ethan StrombeckStanford AStanford B11810
Andrew Amygdalos (UG)GWU A (UG)Liberty C (DII)131-5
Ian He (UG)UNC C (UG)GWU B (Grad)1320
Andrew Storm (DII)GWU B (Grad)UNC C (UG)1320
Miller Doer (DII)Liberty C (DII)GWU A (UG)1320
Emily Bussa (UG)Maryland B (UG)Liberty B (DII)13210
Zander Werner (DII)Virginia C (UG)Roanoke College A (DII)1320
Duncan Griffiths (UG)William & Mary A (UG)Virginia A (UG)13210
Bryce Kline (UG)JMU B (UG)Liberty A (Grad)13210
Aleks Kozlowski (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)Virginia C (UG)1320
Patrick Torre (DII)Maryland C (DII)UNC D (DII)13210
James ByrneBristolDurham A13210
Oliver HargraveOxford ACambridge C13210
Danny TranTennesseeHarding13210
Jake MarkusDartmouth BBoston University1320
Towery McNeilBoston UniversityDartmouth B1320