Question
This man’s initials name a rangefinder camera produced at a labor commune that Anton Makarenko ran after writing The Pedagogical Poem at the Gorky Colony. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man who organized the “philosophers’ ships” that carried dissident intellectuals to exile in 1922. In 2023, his monument was reinstalled in front of the Lubyanka Building, the HQ of his Cheka secret police.
ANSWER: Felix Dzerzhinsky [or Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky; or Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński; prompt on Iron Felix]
[10e] The Dzerzhinsky Labor Commune housed the besprizorniki class of these people. The “king of the sewers,” Bruce Lee, was part of a class of these people called decreței (“deh-KRET-say”) after Decree 770 in Romania.
ANSWER: orphans [or children or synonyms like kids or youth; accept juvenile delinquents; prompt on beggars; prompt on homeless or unhoused people]
[10h] A Dzerzhinsky Factory named for these objects was the site of intense fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad. A joke held that the ideal Soviet love story was “boy meets” this sort of object, which the Soviet state controlled via namesake “stations.”
ANSWER: tractors [accept combines; accept machine-tractor stations; prompt on machines, farming equipment, or vehicles]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 16.67 | 73% | 60% | 33% |
Data
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Les Missourables | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| We Need New Names | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Jeam Team | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| var merchants | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |