E. T. A. Hoffmann - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 2: Bonus 13

This author added “Amadeus” to his name after writing a story in which a character dreams of two titans who represent the root and fifth of a triad. For 10 points each:

[10e] What author inspired a Tchaikovsky ballet by writing “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”?

ANSWER: E. T. A. Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann]

[10h] In this Hoffman story, a strange man from the Tiergarten relays a dream about a disembodied eye that promises the sweet voice of thirds. This story’s title character sings an aria from blank pages then claims to be a dead composer.

ANSWER: “Ritter Gluck”

[10m] Because this Hoffmann character used a biography of Kapellmeister Kreisler as blotting paper, pages of the biography are mixed with his memoirs. This highly intelligent tomcat lives with the alchemist Master Abraham.

ANSWER: Tomcat Murr [accept The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr]

<FW, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-2

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	13.95	93%	47%	0%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 3	Total	Parts
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC A	0	0	0
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	20	EM
BHSU	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	0	10	E
C R A B S	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	0	10	E
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	10	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 7	10	10	20	EM
Contessa Dora	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	10	10	20	EM
Copán Seethe	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	10	0	10	E
David Foster Gromit	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	0	10	E
Execute Order 6 7	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Tennessee A	10	10	20	EM
Guelph Cloze	Licence to C. Wright Mill	10	0	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Dielectrical Materialism	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	10	E
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	10	0	10	E
Indiana	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	20	EM
Invective Against Swans	Chicago !A	10	0	10	E
JHU	Catholic University A	10	0	10	E
Lex	W&L+Friend	10	0	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	UNC Charity	10	10	20	EM
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	0	10	E
No Country for Old Quizzers	Dour Straits	10	0	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	10	E
Northwestern	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	0	10	E
Penn State	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	10	10	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	0	10	E
Rosslyn Academic Team	Mike and Psmith	10	10	20	EM
Shipping Down from Ballston	Habitat 67	10	10	20	EM
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	NYU A	10	0	10	E
St. Marx	Maybe Ever	0	0	0
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	0	10	E
Team 8	Not Old! (Old)	10	10	20	EM
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	10	20	EM
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Vacuous Tortoise	10	10	20	EM
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	10	10	20	EM
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	[Redacted]	10	10	20	EM
UBC B	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	0	0	0
Untitled Keyal Team	The "C" Team	10	10	20	EM
You Don't Have the Cards	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	10	10	20	EM
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	WashU	10	0	10	E

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	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%