Question

An artist from this country painted a mustachioed man spinning a wheel to sharpen the title object to illustrate the “principle of glittering.” In another painting from this country, a disembodied hand points to the right above a coffee cup and the text “T. 402,” while wheels (-5[1])kick up billowing dust clouds. The (-5[1])painters of The Knife Grinder and Cyclist were part of (10[1])radical groups in this (10[1])country (10[1])called Hylea and Donkey’s Tail, both inspired by its earlier Jack of Diamonds group. (10[1])An artist from this country painted a square with thin borders offset at a slight angle against a white background (10[1])in White on White, which is often contrasted with his work Black Square. (10[1])For 10 points, what non-Italian country was home to many Suprematist and Cubo-Futurist painters, including Kazimir Malevich? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Russia [or Russian Empire or Rossiya or Rossiyskaya Imperiya; accept Soviet Union or USSR or SSSR or Soyuz Sovietskikh Sotsialichetskhikh Respublik; prompt on Ukraine by asking “what country was Ukraine a constituent part of at the time?”] (Cyclist is by Natalia Goncharova.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Michael KohnDurham ABristol46-5
Andrei HuiCambridge COxford A52-5
Enoch YuenImperial ASheffield6210
Jake RobertsDurham BCambridge A6610
Rahim DinaImperial BCambridge B6710
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghKiel8110
Alessandro BogoKCLOxford B10110
Oscar SiddleWarwickOxford C11410
Oliver HargraveOxford ACambridge C13210
James ByrneBristolDurham A13210