Question

One of this author’s stories for children is about a cat with an injured paw who buys a dozen balloons to travel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Russian author who founded the avant-garde group OBERIU (“OH-burr-oo”) with Alexander Vvedensky. This author’s brief and absurdist short stories are collected in the book Today, I Wrote Nothing.
ANSWER: Daniil Kharms [or Daniil Ivanovich Kharms]
[10m] OBERIU was one of the last offshoots of this movement, whose adherents incorporated sounds into the invented language zaum and wrote the manifesto “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.”
ANSWER: Russian Futurism [or Russkiy futurizm]
[10e] Kharms wrote a story in which this author repeatedly trips over Nikolai Gogol. “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste” lists this author among those who should be thrown from the “ship of modernity,” presumably drowning like Parasha in this author’s poem “The Bronze Horseman.”
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AWUSTL A0101020
Cornell AStanford A0101020
Harvard AColumbia A0101020
Imperial ANYU A001010
Iowa State AClaremont A001010
Maryland AGeorgia Tech A0101020
Minnesota AMIT A001010
Minnesota BPurdue A001010
North Carolina AChicago C0101020
Ohio State AChicago A0101020
Penn AIllinois A001010
Penn State AVirginia A001010
Texas AIndiana A001010
Toronto ACornell B0101020
UC Berkeley ANorthwestern A001010
Yale AFlorida A0101020