double - 2025 NAFTA - Buzzpoints

Packet 7: Bonus 8

This word modifies “life” in the English title of a Karolina Pavlova novel in which a young woman with artistic aspirations, Cecily von Lindenborn, is cornered into a marriage of convenience. For 10 points each:

[10m] What word also titles a novella about the titular counselor Golyadkin, who is thrown out of Klara’s name day party and ultimately carted off to an asylum?

ANSWER: double [accept The Double or Dvoynik; accept A Double Life or Dvoynaya zhizn’] (The Double is by Fyodor Dostoevsky.)

[10e] Each chapter of A Double Life follows a single day and ends with Cecily dreaming in this literary style. Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin is a novel in this style.

ANSWER: verse [accept novel-in-verse, poetry, or meter; accept specific meters such as iambic tetrameter]

[10h] This author helped repopularize Pavlova by declaring her one of the masters of Russian verse. Translators struggle with a dense novel by this author whose protagonist wears a red domino costume from a masked ball.

ANSWER: Andrei Bely [or Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev] (The novel is Petersburg. Pavlova became a favorite author of the Russian Symbolists.)

<HA, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
28	13.21	82%	18%	32%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	0	10	10	20	EH
1000000 Delinquents	Chicago !A	0	10	0	10	E
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	No Country for Old Quizzers	0	10	0	10	E
C R A B S	Dour Straits	10	10	0	20	ME
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	10	10	30	MEH
Catholic University A	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	0	0	0	0
Contessa Dora	UNC Charity	10	0	10	20	MH
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Vacuous Tortoise	0	0	0	0
Indiana	Invective Against Swans	0	10	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	0	10	0	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Rosslyn Academic Team	10	10	10	30	MEH
Mike and Psmith	Penn State	0	0	0	0
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	JHU	0	10	0	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	10	10	20	EH
NYU A	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	0	10	10	20	EH
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Habitat 67	0	10	0	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	The "C" Team	0	10	0	10	E
Northwestern	BHSU	0	10	0	10	E
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Execute Order 6 7	0	10	0	10	E
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	10	0	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	0	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	10	10	30	MEH
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Dielectrical Materialism	0	10	10	20	EH
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	Guelph Cloze	0	10	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	Shipping Down from Ballston	0	10	0	10	E
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	Licence to Bill	0	10	0	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	0	0	0	0
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	0	10	10	20	EH

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✕	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✕	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✕	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✕	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	12.00	40%	40%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	26.67	100%	67%	100%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✕	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%