Packet 10: Bonus 6
In Yiyun Li’s memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow, Li’s son James asks his mother for her copy of this novel after the suicide of his brother Vincent. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this novel, which James notes features frequently “vexed” characters like Konstantin Levin. Like James Li, this novel’s title character commits suicide via train.
ANSWER: Anna Karenina [accept Anna Karenin]
[10h] Li’s memoir mentions how James had been reading this play and ruminating on its line “Men die; And they are not happy.” This play’s title ruler debates Cherea and Scipio while ordering arbitrary executions in the wake of his sister’s death.
ANSWER: Caligula (by Albert Camus)
[10m] In Li’s story “Wednesday’s Child,” a mother rues giving her suicidal daughter a copy of The Notebook Trilogy by an author from this country. The housekeeper Emerence appears in a novel from this country titled The Door.
ANSWER: Hungary [or Magyarország] (The Notebook Trilogy is by Ágota Kristóf. Magda Szabó wrote The Door.)
<Editors, European Literature> | S. Playoffs 10 (Editors 10)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 16.67 | 100% | 58% | 8% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Bruin | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Chicago B | UCF | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech A | Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Indiana | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Minnesota | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| North Carolina | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Northwestern B | Waterloo | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Swarthmore | Brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA | Cambridge | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Vanderbilt | MIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| WashU | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 16.67 | 100% | 58% | 8% |