Question

As his friend is “mourning the bees,” a man with this profession relays a folk tale about a bee that refuses midges’ demands to kill Jesus Christ. In a short story cycle including “The Road to Brody,” Afonka Bida shares this profession with a bespectacled narrator who tells a suicidal (15[1])old woman to roast the bird he knelt on in her backyard. At a chateau, a character with this profession takes out the eyes of a portrait (15[1])depicting a woman (15[1])with a (*) mustache. (10[5]-5[1])The Jewish (10[1])Kiril Lyutov, who has this profession, narrates “My First Goose” and other (10[1])stories in a (10[1])cycle by Isaac (-5[1])Babel. (10[1]-5[1])In another short story, a prostitute hides in a bell tower (10[2])after (10[1])stabbing a member (10[4])of (10[1])this profession (10[1])with a cheese knife. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this profession held by the effeminate Prussian “Mademoiselle Fifi.” ■END■ (10[2]0[13])

ANSWER: soldier [or officer; or commander; or military; or cavalrymen; or Red Cavalry; or army; or Konarmiya; accept journalist, which Kiril Lyutov worked as before joining the regiment; for the same reason, prompt on writer]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

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2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y580%0%20%94.50
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Raifton BartlingMichigan StateCarnegie Mellon4915
Noah ChinVirginia Tech AUNC B7615
Leo LawUF BUF C7915
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley C8210
Eve FleisigBerkeley AStanford8210
Danny PeelenPittsburghOhio State C8210
Jisoo YooTexas AHouston82-5
Albery NyangLSEThe Crying of Team 498210
Omer KeskinSay itSorted8210
Ned TagtmeierChicago ANotre Dame A8410
Justin HawkinsIndiana AIllinois B9610
Ben Russel JonesFour Times I Have Despised My SoulSee it9910
Charles HangWUSTLPurdue102-5
Todd MaslykMichigan AOhio State A103-5
Ben KoberleinNotre Dame CNorthwestern B10310
Thomas TibbettsUCFUF A11410
Yrwin BatanMITHarvard A11410
Adam Jones3HK1MMLimp Chriskit11510
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame BIllinois C11810
Michael HundingIllinois ANorthwestern A11810
Joel MilesMinnesotaSIUE11810
William OrrYale ABU11810
Eshan PantNYU AColumbia11910
Ivan StanisavljevicDuke ARIT A12110
Jonathan ShaufUNC CUNC A12510
Eileen PengOxford School for QuiznessGressenheller A128-5
Matthew LamOhio State BMichigan B1390
Jacob GoodsonOhio State AMichigan A1390
Kevin ZhengMichigan BOhio State B1390
Coby TranChicago BIndiana B1390
Nermeen RahmanIndiana BChicago B1390
Owyn NoblePurdueWUSTL1390
Dylan TanouyeTuftsHarvard B1390
Jerry ZhangHarvard BTufts1390
Carter McLeanPrincetonNYU B13910
Daniel KimMarylandJHU B13910
Zaid AsifNYU BPrinceton1390
William GoldenHoustonTexas A1390
Dimitris KalafatisTAMUTexas B1390
Owen GilroyTexas BTAMU1390
Sam MooreGressenheller AOxford School for Quizness1390