Round 10: Tossup 9

During this conflict, a blind accordionist mourns Lionheart’s death in the novel Mazurka for Two Dead Men. The narrator of a memoir set during this conflict survives a sniper shot to the neck and laments his inability to save Georges (-5[1])Kopp. A fictional guerilla group led by the palm-reader Pilar fights in this conflict, the subject of many novels by Jose (*) Camillo Cela. In a novel set during this conflict, Robert is separated from his lover Maria after using grenades to blow up a bridge. Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is set during, for 10 points, what conflict, the subject of Orwell’s memoir Homage to Catalonia? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Spanish Civil War
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓6100%33%17%65.83
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓3100%0%33%93.33
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓4100%0%25%97.00
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓5100%20%0%75.20
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓3100%33%0%78.67
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓4100%0%0%89.50
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓4100%50%0%65.00
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓1100%0%100%108.00
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓8100%50%0%60.25