Round 9: Tossup 14
A character with this condition receives a beating from a servant after being caught hanging cats and burying them with “great ceremony.” When asked to describe an execution, a character with this condition compares the face of a condemned man to a picture he saw in Basel. A character avoids getting stabbed in a hotel after this condition causes him to fall down a flight of stairs. The son of “Stinking” Lizaveta confesses to using this condition as an alibi for murder to a character who is visited by the devil during a dream. In another novel, a character with this condition returns to a Swiss sanatorium after learning that Nastasya Filippovna was murdered by Rogozhin. Smerdyakov suffers from, for 10 points, what condition that afflicts Prince Myshkin in The Idiot also afflicted Fyodor Dostoevsky? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | Conv. % | Neg % | Avg. Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 75% | 25% | 112.33 |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 42% | 67% | 111.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 50% | 75% | 109.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 56% | 33% | 106.80 |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 33% | 50% | 68.50 |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 67% | 67% | 135.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 88% | 13% | 102.86 |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 67% | 17% | 105.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 100% | 13% | 98.25 |