Question
Answer the following questions about places that title books by Soviet author Konstantin Paustovsky. For 10 points each:
[10h] One of Paustovsky’s renowned novellas is titled for a city named for this lagoon east of the Caspian Sea. This lagoon’s salinity reaches 35%, leading the USSR to set up still-operational salt factories there in the early 1930s.
ANSWER: Garabogazkol [accept Kara-Bugaz]
[10m] Paustovsky’s novella Kolkhida, published a year after Kara-Bugaz, references a town named for the ancient kingdom of Colchis that is today in this coastal phantom state.
ANSWER: Abkhazia
[10e] Abkhazia lies on this body of water to the west of the Caucasus, which also titles a Paustovsky essay collection inspired by his time in Crimea.
ANSWER: Black Sea [accept Chernoye More]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 40% | 40% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |