bed trick - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 7: Bonus 2

Specific term required. A Wendy Doniger book on this motif chronicles examples ranging from All’s Lost by Lust to a “truly terrible” poem by Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points each:

[10m] Give this term for a plot device central to English Renaissance plays like Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West. Mariana replaces Isabella in one of these plot devices from Measure for Measure.

ANSWER: bed trick [accept The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade]

[10h] De Flores murders the substitute in this play’s bed trick under cover of a fire when her mistress worries that daylight will reveal her. In this play’s comic subplot, Antonio enters a madhouse to try to seduce a doctor’s wife.

ANSWER: The Changeling (by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley)

[10e] A bed trick also appears in a Thomas Middleton “tragedy” about Vindice, who seeks this concept. Seneca’s dramas influenced a genre of bloody plays named for this concept, which often featured murdered ghosts.

ANSWER: revenge [accept revenge tragedies or revenge plays; accept vengeance; accept The Revenger’s Tragedy]

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

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	15.81	95%	54%	9%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
1000000 Delinquents	Chicago !A	0	0	10	10	E
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC A	0	0	10	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	0	10	20	ME
BHSU	Northwestern	10	0	10	20	ME
C R A B S	Dour Straits	0	0	10	10	E
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	0	0	10	10	E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20	ME
Contessa Dora	UNC Charity	10	0	10	20	ME
David Foster Gromit	Copán Seethe	10	0	10	20	ME
Dielectrical Materialism	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	10	10	30	MHE
Execute Order 6 7	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	10	10	30	MHE
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	0	10	20	ME
Indiana	Invective Against Swans	10	0	10	20	ME
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	0	10	10	E
JHU	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	10	0	10	20	ME
Lex	St. Marx	10	0	10	20	ME
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	10	0	10	20	ME
Maybe Ever	W&L+Friend	0	0	10	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	0	10	20	ME
NYU A	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	0	10	20	ME
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Habitat 67	0	10	10	20	HE
No Country for Old Quizzers	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	0	10	20	ME
Penn State	Mike and Psmith	10	10	10	30	MHE
Rosslyn Academic Team	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	10	0	10	20	ME
Stanford A	Not Old! (Old)	0	0	10	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	10	0	10	20	ME
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Fire Neg Time	0	0	10	10	E
Team 7	Stanford B	10	0	10	20	ME
Team 8	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20	ME
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	0	0	0	0
The "C" Team	Noah Sheidlower	0	0	10	10	E
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	0	10	10	E
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	0	10	10	E
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC B	0	0	10	10	E
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	Guelph Cloze	0	0	10	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	Shipping Down from Ballston	10	0	10	20	ME
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	0	10	M
Vacuous Tortoise	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	0	0	10	10	E
WashU	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	0	0	10	10	E
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	You Don't Have the Cards	0	0	10	10	E
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	Licence to Bill	0	0	10	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	[Redacted]	0	0	10	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Catholic University A	10	0	10	20	ME

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%