Packet 9: Bonus 12
In a Silvina Ocampo story titled for one of these places “Made of Sugar,” Cristina gradually comes to resemble the dead character Violeta. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these places. The narrator and his knitting sister Irene escape from one of these places being “Taken Over” after hearing mysterious noises from beings in a story by Julio Cortázar.
ANSWER: houses [accept casas; accept “House Taken Over” or “Casa tomada”; accept “The House Made of Sugar” or “La casa de azúcar”]
[10e] Ocampo and Cortázar are authors from this South American home country of Jorge Luis Borges.
ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina]
[10m] Ocampo wrote a story in which Leopoldina’s family tries to get her to use these phenomena to make them rich. In a novel often titled in translation for one of these occurrences, Lin Daiyu is loved by the protagonist who is reincarnated from a piece of jade.
ANSWER: dreams [accept sueños or mèng; accept “Leopoldina’s Dream” or “Los sueños de Leopoldina”; accept Dream of the Red Chamber or Hónglóumèng; prompt on The Story of the Stone with “what occurrences appear in the more common translated title?”]
<Literature - World, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 09
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 17.00 | 93% | 48% | 30% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armand duplantis fan club | An even worse idea | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish? | Booz Allen Interns | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| I have no buzzer and I must neg | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Michael Touse-Squid | Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Not Just Biking | The Young Jits | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Ostia Orcas | They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| PC Chris Master Race | Mountain Dew is Better | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Ted Offensive | They fuck you up your buzz and neg | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 0% | 25% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 20% | 20% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 88% | 50% |