Question
In a translation by Constance Garnett, this character has “the blood that tells,” which is “the quality that makes all things forgotten.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name that character. In a novel, this character’s death after an accident involving Gladiator is described as a count’s “cruelest and bitterest memory.”
ANSWER: Frou-Frou
[10e] The horse Frou-Frou was ridden by this character. After this count sees the title character of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina for the first time, a railroad worker is killed in an accident.
ANSWER: Count Vronsky [or Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky; prompt on Alexei or Alyosha]
[10h] Tolstoy demonstrated defamiliarization by using a horse's perspective in this story, in which the title horse realizes that men are “guided in life not by deeds but by words” and is later banished for beating Swan in a race.
ANSWER: “Kholstomer” [accept “Strider”]
<Kevin Wang, European Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| WUSTL | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |