Alexander Pushkin - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

Answer the following about Russian novels depicting the Caucasus region, for 10 points each.

[10e] Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Prisoner of the Caucasus shares its name with a narrative poem by this other author. This author of The Captain’s Daughter wrote the verse novel Eugene Onegin.

ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]

[10h] This other Tolstoy novella set in the Caucasus mountains begins and ends with the image of a crushed crimson thistle. The title guerrilla leader of this novella dies fighting the Russians after leaving them to rescue his family.

ANSWER: Hadji Murat [or Hadji Murad]

[10m] The seminal Caucasus novel is often considered to be a novel by this author about the various episodes of the superfluous man Pechorin (“peh-CHOR-in”), titled A Hero of Our Time. This author is sometimes called the “poet of the Caucasus.”

ANSWER: Mikhail Lermontov [or Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	16.25	88%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	15.00	75%	63%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	10.00	60%	0%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	14.55	91%	27%	27%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	13.00	80%	40%	10%

Data


Emory A	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech C	10	10	10	30
Auburn C	Georgia Tech E	0	0	0	0
NYU B	Arkansas	0	0	0	0
Iowa	Oregon State	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State	McGill E	10	0	10	20
Colorado College	Missouri	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Ole Miss	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Vassar B	10	0	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Texas C	10	0	10	20
WUSTL A	Texas D	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Harvard A	10	0	10	20
Carabrandeis	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech A	Clemson A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Emory B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Tennesse A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Tennesse B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	CWRU B	10	0	10	20
Kenyon A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D (DII)	10	0	10	20
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	10	0	0	10
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan State B (UG)	10	0	10	20
Kenyon B (DII)	Ohio State B (DII)	0	0	0	0
Michigan State C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	10	0	0	10
UW A	Alberta	10	0	10	20
UBC A	SFU	10	0	10	20
UBC B	UW B	10	0	10	20
UCF A	UF E	10	0	0	10
UCF B	UF D	0	10	0	10
UF B	Florida State University A	10	10	0	20
UF C	UF A	10	0	0	10
Florida Tech B	UF F	0	0	0	0
Amherst A	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Boston University B	Williams A	0	0	0	0
BU A	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Tufts B	Brandeises Brew	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford L	10	10	10	30
Stanford M	Stanford A	10	10	10	30
Birmingham	Imperial B	10	0	10	20
LSE B	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Southampton	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh	Durham B	0	0	0	0
LSE A	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
Durham A	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Vanderbilt	Warwick B	10	10	10	30
Yale B	Clark A	10	0	0	10
A Brandeis Supreme	Diamond Brandeis	10	0	10	20
Yale A	MIT A	10	0	10	20
Yale C	Northeastern A	10	10	0	20