Al-Jāhiliyyah - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 4: Bonus 18

Taha Hussein rose to fame by arguing against the authenticity of most literature from this period, during which “brigand-poets” called ṣaʿālīk were most active. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name or describe this era, which produced seven masterpieces collected as the Hanging Odes.

ANSWER: Al-Jāhiliyyah [or the Age of Ignorance; accept descriptions of the time before Islam or before Muhammad; accept On Pre-Islamic Poetry]

[10h] This poet’s entry in the Hanging Odes addresses the deserted house of his lover before he fearlessly charges through javelins in battle. A celebrated romance follows this half-Ethiopian’s rise from slavery and love for ‘Ablah.

ANSWER: Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi [or ʿAntar; prompt on ibn Shaddad]

[10e] The earliest of the Hanging Odes is a poem by Imru’ al-Qais (“ahl-KYE-is”) that commands “Let us stop” and do this action. Psalm 137 begins “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down” and did this action.

ANSWER: weeping [or crying; or shedding tears; accept word forms like wept or cried; accept “Let us stop and weep”]

<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-4

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
30	14.33	83%	53%	7%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	Dour Straits	0	0	10	10	E
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC B	0	0	10	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	10	0	0	10	M
Berkeley B	Team 8	10	0	10	20	ME
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Fire Neg Time	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago !A	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	0	0	10	10	E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Stanford A	0	0	10	10	E
Contessa Dora	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	0	0	10	10	E
Dielectrical Materialism	Vacuous Tortoise	0	0	10	10	E
Execute Order 6 7	Invective Against Swans	10	0	10	20	ME
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	0	0	0	0
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	1000000 Delinquents	0	0	10	10	E
Indiana	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	0	10	20	ME
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	10	0	10	20	ME
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	0	10	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	Northwestern	10	0	10	20	ME
NYU A	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	0	10	M
No Country for Old Quizzers	C R A B S	10	10	10	30	MHE
Noah Sheidlower	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	0	10	20	ME
Not Old! (Old)	Stanford B	10	0	10	20	ME
Penn State	JHU	10	0	10	20	ME
Shipping Down from Ballston	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	0	0	10	10	E
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	0	0	10	10	E
Team 7	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10	M
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	0	10	10	20	HE
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC A	10	0	0	10	M
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	BHSU	0	0	10	10	E
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	Guelph Cloze	10	0	10	20	ME
You Don't Have the Cards	Licence to C. Wright Mill	10	0	10	20	ME
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Rosslyn Academic Team	10	0	10	20	ME

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	2	5.00	0%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	25%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%