Frank O’Hara - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 5: Bonus 12

Marjorie Perloff’s biography of this critic emphasizes the influence of Jackson Pollock, who often subjected him to homophobic abuse despite his authorship of a flattering 1959 monograph. For 10 points each:

[10h] Larry Rivers painted what ARTnews critic wearing only boots? With Dorothy Miller, this curator helped bring Abstract Expressionism to European audiences in the 1958 exhibition The New American Painting.

ANSWER: Frank O’Hara [accept Frank O’Hara: Poet Among the Painters]

[10e] Frank O’Hara wrote Lunch Poems during his breaks at this Manhattan museum. As the first director of this home of The Starry Night, Alfred Barr drew a diagram emphasizing its commitment to 20th-century abstraction.

ANSWER: MoMA [or the Museum of Modern Art]

[10m] In “Radio,” O’Hara praises an orange bed in a painting by this close friend, whom he called Action Painting’s “Delacroix.” A series by this artist draws elements from cigarette ads and Sumerian fertility idols.

ANSWER: Willem de Kooning [prompt on de Kooning]

<HA, Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-5

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
37	15.41	100%	51%	3%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%