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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

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4512.6767%42%18%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Georgia ATexas A10101030HEM
Georgia BKentucky010010E
North CarolinaNew York0000
Texas BCalifornia10101030HEM
WashingtonGeorgia C0000

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓615.0083%33%33%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓313.3367%67%0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓313.3367%33%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓45.0025%25%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓516.00100%60%0%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓33.3333%0%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓42.5025%0%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓47.5050%25%0%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓514.0060%40%40%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓822.50100%88%38%