Bonus
During a Christmas party, this character attempts to shoot the lawyer Komarovsky, but hits a prosecutor instead. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character. After her husband’s disappearance during World War 1, this character becomes the lover of a physician who writes poems such as “Hamlet” and “Holy Week” during the Russian Civil War.
ANSWER: Lara Antipova [or Larissa Fyodorovna Antipova or Larissa Fyodorovna Guichard; prompt on Antipova or Guichard]
[10m] The love affair between Lara and Yuri is chronicled in this author’s novel Doctor Zhivago.
ANSWER: Boris Pasternak [or Boris Leonidovich Pasternak]
[10e] Lara’s final fate is unclear, although she likely dies in one of these locations. In a non-fiction work, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (“sol-zhuh-NEET-sin”) chronicled life in an “archipelago” of these Soviet labor camps.
ANSWER: gulag [accept The Gulag Archipelago]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 106 | 15.28 | 100% | 48% | 5% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 57% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 17.50 | 100% | 67% | 8% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 12 | 13.33 | 100% | 25% | 8% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 100% | 58% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |