Question
In a short story by this author, a character yells whimsical expletives like “Shitomometer!” and “Foolodancius!” before meeting a man with a “large, mealy-white, pear-shaped face.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of the story “Red Pyramid.” Near the end of a novel by this author, men have sex in a “caterpillar” formation while shouting “Hail!”
ANSWER: Vladimir Sorokin [or Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin] (The novel is The Day of the Oprichnik.)
[10m] In “Red Pyramid,” Yura misses one of these events by taking a train to Fryazino instead of Fryazevo. In a Dostoevsky novella, Yakov Golyadkin meets his double after being kicked out of one of these events.
ANSWER: birthday parties [or a birthday party; prompt on dinner party by asking “for what sort of occasion?”; reject answers mentioning a “name day”]
[10e] In another Sorokin story, Burmistrov claims to have subsisted on only horse soup for seven years while in one of these places. In a novel, Kilgas the Latvian and the Baptist Alyoshka live in one of these places.
ANSWER: gulag [accept correctional labor camps or clear equivalents, such as forced labor camps, work camps, or prison camps] (The novel is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.)
<Arya Karthik, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 90% | 10% | 20% |
Data
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | BHSU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Canadians | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| In Search of Things Past | Quasicrystal Silence | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | I would prefer not to | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Team Name Think Detail | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| remembrance of lost time | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |