Packet 1: Bonus 1
In a novel set in this country, a family attends a strange performance which ends with a hypnotist pretending to be the woman Silvestra, causing a man to kiss him. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country, the setting of a novel in which the protagonist dreams about a group of torch carrying humans worshipping a “stranger-god.”
ANSWER: Italy [or Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana]
[10e] This author used Italy as the setting for his novels Mario and the Magician and Death in Venice.
ANSWER: Thomas Mann [or Paul Thomas Mann]
[10m] The boy Hanno dies of typhoid fever in this Thomas Mann novel which chronicles 42 years of the decline of the wealthy title family from Lübeck.
ANSWER: Buddenbrooks
<Literature - European, Daniel Merida> | VAULT II Packet 01
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 13.85 | 80% | 51% | 8% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brown Ballers | With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family | whatever | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance | Heauton Timorumenos | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Midnight Bus to Vista | Basileus II: Electric Boogaloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Prat Pack | Taman's Nepo Babies | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✕ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 40% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 2.50 | 25% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |