Packet 10: Bonus 11
Note to players: Two answers required. During a moment of confusion between these two families, the maid Mary bursts in and reads a nonsensical poem which describes everything catching on fire. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two families, who find out they both have a daughter named Alice with one white eye and one red eye. After the lights go out, they exclaim “It’s not that way, it’s over here,” and switch places with each other.
ANSWER: The Smiths and the Martins [accept in either order; reject partial answers]
[10e] The Smiths and the Martins are the central characters of The Bald Soprano, a work by this Romanian playwright who wrote a "cycle" of plays about Bérenger.
ANSWER: Eugène Ionesco
[10m] In this play from the Bérenger Cycle, Jean states "Humanism is dead" and chases the protagonist out of his apartment. Bérenger claims that he "will not capitulate" to a curse in this play
ANSWER: Rhinoceros
<Literature - European, Hari Ananthakrishnan> | VAULT II Packet 10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 15.95 | 78% | 57% | 24% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 67% | 17% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 80% | 20% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 25% | 25% | 25% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 75% | 38% |