coffeepot - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 5: Bonus 20

Answer the following about the French artist Jacques Carelman, who parodied Manufrance mail-order items in his whimsical Catalog of Unfindable Objects, for 10 points each.

[10h] The best-known of Carleman’s designs may be one of these objects “for masochists” that hurts the operator with every use. “User-centered design” was popularized by a book whose cover depicts that one of these objects.

ANSWER: coffeepot [or cafetière; accept the Coffeepot for Masochists; accept teapot or kettle; accept percolator; prompt on pot] (The book is Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things.)

[10e] In a sequel catalog, Carelman drew La Semeuse playing tennis on one of his unfindable examples of these objects. An upside-down plane appears on the Inverted Jenny, one of these objects sought by philatelists.

ANSWER: postage stamps [or timbres-poste; accept Catalogue de timbres-poste introuvables]

[10m] Carelman’s work reviving Ouxpo led to his appointment as regent of this field’s college, where he held a chair in “helicology,” the study of Ubu’s belly. Alfred Jarry founded this “science of imaginary solutions.”

ANSWER: ‘pataphysics [or ‘pataphysique; accept Collège de 'Pataphysique]

<HA, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-5

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
31	18.06	94%	68%	19%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
1000000 Delinquents	Invective Against Swans	0	10	10	20	EM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30	HEM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	10	10	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Not Old! (Old)	10	10	10	30	HEM
David Foster Gromit	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	0	0	10	10	M
Dour Straits	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	0	10	10	20	EM
Guelph Cloze	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	0	10	0	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	C R A B S	0	10	10	20	EM
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	You Don't Have the Cards	0	10	0	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	BHSU	0	10	0	10	E
Indiana	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	10	10	20	EM
JHU	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	0	10	0	10	E
Lex	[Redacted]	0	10	10	20	EM
Maybe Ever	WashU	0	10	10	20	EM
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	Chicago !A	10	10	10	30	HEM
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	Habitat 67	0	0	0	0
No Country for Old Quizzers	Dielectrical Materialism	0	10	10	20	EM
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled Keyal Team	0	10	10	20	EM
Northwestern	Execute Order 6 7	0	10	0	10	E
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	0	10	10	20	EM
Shipping Down from Ballston	NYU A	10	10	10	30	HEM
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	10	10	20	EM
Team 8	Team 7	10	10	10	30	HEM
The "C" Team	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	10	10	30	HEM
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	0	10	10	20	EM
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	W&L+Friend	0	10	10	20	EM
Vacuous Tortoise	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	0	10	0	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	St. Marx	0	10	0	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Contessa Dora	0	10	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%