Packet 9: Bonus 14
In part seven of a novel, a man thinks of his lover sitting on a stump petting their dog and of this man hugging a horse and apologizing for Descartes. For 10 points each:
[10h] A key idea of what person is discussed in the first sentence of a 1984 novel that goes on to speculate about a “war between two African kingdoms, a war that altered nothing in the destiny of the world?”
ANSWER: Friedrich Nietzsche
[10e] A discussion of Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return begins this novel by Milan Kundera, in which Tomáš (“TOH-mahsh”) assigns the title quality to life if all events really do recur forever.
ANSWER: The Unbearable Lightness of Being [or Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí]
[10m] Nietzsche’s views informed Kundera’s novel Immortality, which features a posthumous friendship between Ernest Hemingway and this author. A novel by this author features a love quadrangle between Eduard, Charlotte, Ottilie, and Captain Otto.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The novel is Elective Affinities.)
<Editors, European Literature> | R. Playoffs 9 (Editors 9)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16.67 | 100% | 63% | 4% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Bruin | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | North Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Columbia B | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Indiana | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Maryland B | Northwestern B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Purdue | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Texas | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto B | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Pittsburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Vanderbilt | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Waterloo | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 16.67 | 100% | 63% | 4% |