Question
One of this author’s stories for children is about a cat with an injured paw who buys a dozen balloons to travel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Russian author who founded the avant-garde group OBERIU (“OH-burr-oo”) with Alexander Vvedensky. This author’s brief and absurdist short stories are collected in the book Today, I Wrote Nothing.
ANSWER: Daniil Kharms [or Daniil Ivanovich Kharms]
[10m] OBERIU was one of the last offshoots of this movement, whose adherents incorporated sounds into the invented language zaum and wrote the manifesto “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.”
ANSWER: Russian Futurism [or Russkiy futurizm]
[10e] Kharms wrote a story in which this author repeatedly trips over Nikolai Gogol. “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste” lists this author among those who should be thrown from the “ship of modernity,” presumably drowning like Parasha in this author’s poem “The Bronze Horseman.”
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 16 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
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| Cornell A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Iowa State A | Claremont A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Northwestern A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas A | Indiana A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Virginia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |