Question
Students in this author’s two-semester survey class at Wellesley College were required to memorize the letter grades he gave to Russian writers. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who gave Tolstoy an A+ and Dostoevsky a C-. His own novels include Lolita.
ANSWER: Vladimir Nabokov
[10m] Since Nabokov didn’t assign grades to his own novels, we’ll have to go to Goodreads to see that Jim gave this “heartfelt story of a hapless antihero” four stars. This Nabokov novel centers on a professor at Waindell College.
ANSWER: Pnin
[10h] “Dan” on Goodreads only gave 3.5 stars to The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov but did enjoy this one about “an aging couple… at a loss about what to do about their institutionalized son.” This story opens with the couple choosing a birthday gift of “a basket with ten different fruit jellies in ten little jars.”
ANSWER: “Signs and Symbols” [or “Symbols and Signs”]
<Michael Bentley, Literature - American - Misc> ~22876~ <Editor: Chandler West>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 36 | 13.06 | 100% | 25% | 6% |