Question
A soldier participates in this activity in order to marry the title character of the poem The Tambov Treasurer’s Wife by Mikhail Lermontov. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity. At the end of one novel, Alexei Ivanovich decides to participate in this activity before leaving for Switzerland to find Polina.
ANSWER: gamble [accept playing cards; accept roulette] (The other novel is The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.)
[10e] Fyodor Dolokhov gambles away 40,000 rubles after proposing to Sonya in this author’s novel War and Peace.
ANSWER: Leo Tolstoy [or Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy]
[10m] While playing checkers with the cheating Nozdryov, the protagonist of this novel, Chichikov, refuses to gamble with his list of names.
ANSWER: Dead Souls [or Mjórtvyje dúshi] (by Nikolai Gogol)
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
Data
| Cornell Wind | Cornell Fire | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT | Rochester A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Cornell Earth | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |