Packet 11: Bonus 4
In a novel’s epilogue, Misha Gordon and Nika Dudorov return to Moscow and find poems such as “Holy Week” and “The Garden of Gethsemane” in the notebook of this character. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who has an affair with Lara after he’s forced by the Forest Brotherhood to fight in the Russian Civil War.
ANSWER: Doctor Zhivago [or Yuri Andreievich Zhivago]
[10e] Doctor Zhivago was created by this author. This author famously refused the Nobel Prize at the behest of the Soviet government.
ANSWER: Boris Pasternak [or Boris Leonidovich Pasternak]
[10h] A Russian proverb claiming “[This concept] is not a walk across a field” concludes Doctor Zhivago’s poem “Hamlet.” This word follows “My Sister” in the title of a poetry collection by Pasternak written prior to the October Revolution.
ANSWER: life [accept “Life if not a walk across a field”; accept “My Sister, Life”; accept accept “Sestra moya — zhizn”]
<Literature - Other, Nelson Ma> | VAULT II Packet 11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 18.10 | 86% | 67% | 29% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian Rift in the Sky | Midnight Bus to Vista | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family | Heauton Timorumenos | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience | Always Set the Kurve | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 18.75 | 88% | 63% | 38% |