Question
A character in this novel feels “like a deaf man watching people dancing” during an orchestral fantasia of King Lear. In this novel, a vague comment from a French clairvoyant named Jules Landau prompts another character to refuse a divorce. After two proposals, Kostya Levin successfully marries Kitty in this novel. This novel opens by describing chaos in the Oblonsky household to exemplify its statement that “every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This novel’s title character throws herself under a freight train, deliberately mirroring a rail worker’s death when she first met Count Vronsky. For 10 points, a Russian noblewoman titles what novel by Leo Tolstoy? ■END■
ANSWER: Anna Karenina [or Anna Karenin]
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Vincent Zhang (DII) | Penn | University of Delaware A | 70 | 10 |
Frank Paz (DII) | Swarthmore A | NYU A | 83 | 10 |
Edward Zhou (DII) | NYU A | Swarthmore A | 83 | -5 |
Andrea Ladino (UG) | NYU B | Swarthmore B | 86 | 10 |
Geoffrey Wu (UG) | Columbia A | Rutgers | 108 | 10 |
Mihir Shetty (UG) | Columbia B | University of Delaware B | 109 | 10 |