the wild ass's skin - 2025 VAULT II

Packet 4: Bonus 9

The owner of this object receives it after entering a shop on the way to kill himself in the Seine. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this cursed title object obtained by Raphael de Valentin, which shrinks each time it grants a wish.

ANSWER: the wild ass's skin [or La Peau de chagrin; accept the Skin of Sorrow, or The Magic Skin]

[10e] The Wild Ass's Skin is one work in The Human Comedy, a novel sequence by this French author.

ANSWER: Honoré de Balzac

[10m] In this other novel from The Human Comedy, the title vermicelli maker is bankrupted and abandoned by his daughters. Eugène de Rastignac is the only attendee at the title character of this novel's funeral.

ANSWER: Le Pere Goriot (“pair gohr-YO”) [or Father Goriot; or Old Goriot]

<Literature - European, Hari Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 04

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
45	12.67	67%	42%	18%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Abbey Park	Bella Vista	0	0	0	0
Armand duplantis fan club	I have no buzzer and I must neg	0	10	10	20	EM
Basileus II: Electric Boogaloo	Heauton Timorumenos	0	10	0	10	E
Belmont B	Wellesley	0	10	0	10	E
Birmingham B	Oxford	0	10	0	10	E
Booz Allen Interns	Virginia Tech	10	10	10	30	HEM
Chapel Hill A	Grimsley	0	10	10	20	EM
Chapel Hill B	Cary Academy	0	0	0	0
Chattahoochee A	Johns Creek	0	10	10	20	EM
Chimera	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10	E
Eden Prairie	Burnsville	0	10	0	10	E
Georgia A	Texas A	10	10	10	30	HEM
Georgia B	Kentucky	0	10	0	10	E
Hoover	Innovation B	0	10	0	10	E
Innovation A	Exhibition	10	10	0	20	HE
Lambert B	Lambert A	0	0	0	0
Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance	Big Brown Ballers	0	10	10	20	EM
Lexington A	Waltham A	0	10	10	20	EM
Lexington B	Mansfield B	0	0	0	0
Manchester A	Manchester B	0	0	0	0
Martingrove	Glebe	0	0	0	0
Midtown	Chattahoochee B	0	10	0	10	E
Minnetonka B	Minnetonka A	10	10	10	30	HEM
Minnetonka C	Providence	0	0	0	0
Mountain Dew is Better	Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu	0	10	10	20	EM
North Carolina	New York	0	0	0	0
Northern	Burlington Trojans	0	0	0	0
Northview A	Northview B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Not Just Biking	Ostia Orcas	10	10	10	30	HEM
PC Chris Master Race	Michael Touse-Squid	0	10	10	20	EM
Prat Pack	Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family	0	10	10	20	EM
Renert	Cheese Sandwich	0	10	10	20	EM
Sheffield A	Sheffield B	0	0	0	0
Southampton	Cambridge	0	0	0	0
Southperial	Bath	0	0	0	0
Taman's Nepo Babies	Always Set the Kurve	0	10	0	10	E
Tantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae	East Chapel Hill	0	10	10	20	EM
Ted Offensive	Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish?	0	10	0	10	E
Texas B	California	10	10	10	30	HEM
The Young Jits	They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days	10	10	10	30	HEM
They fuck you up your buzz and neg	An even worse idea	0	10	10	20	EM
Waltham B	Mansfield A	0	0	0	0
Warperial	Birmingham A	0	0	0	0
Washington	Georgia C	0	0	0	0
With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience	Midnight Bus to Vista	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech	2026-01-24	✓	6	15.00	83%	33%	33%
Triangle Cup	2026-03-13	✓	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS	2026-03-13	✓	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
VAULT II at McGill	2026-03-13	✓	4	5.00	25%	25%	0%
VAULT II at UCSB	2026-03-13	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
VAULT II Northern UK	2026-04-24	✓	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
VAULT II Southern UK	2026-04-24	✓	4	2.50	25%	0%	0%
VAULT II at Harvard	2026-04-30	✓	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
VAULT II at MINT	2026-06-19	✓	5	14.00	60%	40%	40%
VAULT II Stanford Online	2026-07-17	✓	8	22.50	100%	88%	38%