Question
This author quoted Mephistopheles’s line “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life” in his Letters on Tactics. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this man whose love of Nikolay Chernyshevsky (“CHUR-nee-SHEV-skee”) inspired the name of his first treatise What Is To Be Done? Socialist realism emerged after this Bolshevik leader’s death.
ANSWER: Vladimir Lenin [or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov]
[10m] Lenin was fluent in Latin and read the Satires by this Roman author, who coined the phrases “bread and circuses” and “who watches the watchmen?”
ANSWER: Juvenal [or Decimus Junius Juvenalis]
[10h] Lenin often lambasted this landowner created by Ivan Goncharov. This character’s name became a byword for absurd laziness due to his unwillingness to roll out of bed.
ANSWER: Oblomov [or Ilya Ilyich Oblomov; or Ilya Ilyich Oblomov; accept Oblomovism]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - European - Other> ~22181~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 12.50 | 94% | 28% | 3% |