Packet 9: Bonus 20
This novel begins with its title character observing sunlight on the street from a store window before being bought. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this novel in which the title Artificial Friend destroys the pollutive Cootings Machine using P-E-G Nine, and serves the sick child Josie.
ANSWER: Klara and the Sun
[10m] The protagonist of this other novel recalls working for a Nazi sympathizer who orders him to fire two Jewish maids. This novel begins with Stevens taking a road trip to see Miss Kenton.
ANSWER: The Remains of the Day
[10e] Both Klara and the Sun and The Remains of the Day were written by this British-Japanese author, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
ANSWER: Kazuo Ishiguro
<Literature - British, Hari Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 09
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 20.00 | 83% | 75% | 42% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 60% | 60% | 40% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 7 | 27.14 | 100% | 100% | 71% |