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 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■
ANSWER: Spanish Civil War
<Literature - European, Nelson Ma> | VAULT II Packet 10
= Average correct buzzpoint
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzzpoint | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suchet Kuturu | Georgia A | Texas B | 39 | -5 |
| Kamran Nawaz (St. Mark's) | Texas B | Georgia A | 108 | 10 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Avg. Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 65.83 |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 93.33 |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 97.00 |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 75.20 |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 78.67 |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.50 |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 65.00 |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 108.00 |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 60.25 |