Question
In a novel titled for this number, one character founds the “Sword and Plowshare” secret society to swindle money in order to buy auctioned furniture, but his partner blows the money on a date with Liza. For 10 points each:
[10m] What number also titles a poem that ends with the revelation that the leader of a group of militants is Jesus Christ? That poem titled for this number opens with the image of “Darkness—and white / snow hurled / by the wind.”
ANSWER: twelve [accept The Twelve Chairs or Dvenadtsat stulyev; accept “The Twelve” or “Dvenadtsat” (by Alexander Blok)]
[10e] “The Twelve” is set in this city, the home of Acmeism. In a poem set in this city, Parasha drowns in a flood.
ANSWER: St. Petersburg [or Petrograd; accept Leningrad, although none of the clues refer to the time period when the city was called that] (The poem is “The Bronze Horseman.”)
[10h] A note in the manuscript of “The Twelve” compares the 12 Bolsheviks to a group of 12 brigands led by Kudear, whom this Petersburgian author created in the poem “Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia?” This author published their poem Korobeiniki in the journal Sovremmenik, which they edited for a time.
ANSWER: Nikolay Nekrasov [or Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov] (Lines from the poem Korobeiniki were set to music in the folk song of the same name, a cover of which became the Tetris theme.)
<Arya Karthik, European Literature>
Summary
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Data
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| I would prefer not to | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | Team Name Think Detail | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |