Packet 3: Bonus 3
The “Spilled Blood” of a member of this profession titles the second part of a poem that declares “Death has painted him with pale sulfurs.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this profession that titles a poem whose speaker repeats “I don’t want to see it!” A member of this profession dies at “at five in the afternoon” in a 1935 poem.
ANSWER: bullfighter[accept “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter”]
[10e] “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter” was written by this Generation of ‘27 poet who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. His plays include Blood Wedding.
ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca
[10h] A Garcia Lorca poem titled for this form begins by declaring “I want to sleep the sleep of the apples.” The Divan of Hafez includes many poems in this form, which ends each couplet with a repeated word or phrase.
ANSWER: ghazal [accept Ghazal of the Dark Death; or Gacela of the Dark Dearth; or Gacela De La Muerte Oscura]
<Literature - European, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 03
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 16.44 | 78% | 53% | 33% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 83% | 0% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 60% | 40% | 40% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 75% | 75% | 50% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 28.75 | 100% | 88% | 100% |