Question
This man’s initials name a rangefinder camera produced at a labor commune that Anton Makarenko ran after writing The Pedagogical Poem at the Gorky Colony. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man who organized the “philosophers’ ships” that carried dissident intellectuals to exile in 1922. In 2023, his monument was reinstalled in front of the Lubyanka Building, the HQ of his Cheka secret police.
ANSWER: Felix Dzerzhinsky [or Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky; or Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński; prompt on Iron Felix]
[10e] The Dzerzhinsky Labor Commune housed the besprizorniki class of these people. The “king of the sewers,” Bruce Lee, was part of a class of these people called decreței (“deh-KRET-say”) after Decree 770 in Romania.
ANSWER: orphans [or children or synonyms like kids or youth; accept juvenile delinquents; prompt on beggars; prompt on homeless or unhoused people]
[10h] A Dzerzhinsky Factory named for these objects was the site of intense fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad. A joke held that the ideal Soviet love story was “boy meets” this sort of object, which the Soviet state controlled via namesake “stations.”
ANSWER: tractors [accept combines; accept machine-tractor stations; prompt on machines, farming equipment, or vehicles]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 16.67 | 73% | 60% | 33% |