Georges Seurat - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 1: Bonus 1

This artist depicted his mother Ernestine Faivre sewing in a grainy drawing made on toothy Michallet paper. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this artist, whose “chromoluminarist” style was influenced by scientists like Ogden Rood and Michel-Eugène Chevreul. A row of can-can dancers in red kick their legs up high in this artist’s painting Le Chahut (“shah-OO”).

ANSWER: Georges Seurat [or Georges Pierre Seurat]

[10h] In his drawing of his mother, Seurat achieved strong control over shading using this medium, which is less smudgy than charcoal. This medium, which is named for its 19th century French inventor, is made by mixing graphite with clay.

ANSWER: Conté crayons [or Conté sticks; accept Nicolas-Jacques Conté; prompt on crayons]

[10e] Seurat used his Conté drawing L’écho as a study for a hat-wearing boy in a painting that depicts the boy among those doing this activity at Asnières (“ah-NYAIR”). Six naked men do this activity in a painting by Thomas Eakins.

ANSWER: bathing [or swimming; or word forms like bathe; accept Bathers at Asnières or Une Baignade, Asnières or The Swimming Hole or The Old Swimming Hole]

<KN, Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-1

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
41	13.41	100%	24%	10%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Invective Against Swans	10	0	10	20	ME
1000000 Delinquents	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	10	10	30	MHE
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC B	0	0	10	10	E
BHSU	Chicago !A	0	10	10	20	HE
Berkeley A	Not Old! (Old)	10	0	10	20	ME
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	0	0	10	10	E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Stanford B	10	0	10	20	ME
David Foster Gromit	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	0	0	10	10	E
Dielectrical Materialism	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	0	0	10	10	E
Dour Straits	Vacuous Tortoise	0	0	10	10	E
Execute Order 6 7	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	0	10	10	E
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	10	0	10	20	ME
Habitat 67	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	0	10	10	E
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	0	0	10	10	E
Indiana	Northwestern	0	0	10	10	E
JHU	Contessa Dora	0	0	10	10	E
Lex	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	0	0	10	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	0	0	10	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Mike and Psmith	0	0	10	10	E
Maybe Ever	[Redacted]	10	0	10	20	ME
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Rosslyn Academic Team	0	0	10	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	0	10	10	20	HE
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	Shipping Down from Ballston	0	0	10	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	The "C" Team	10	0	10	20	ME
No Country for Old Quizzers	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	0	10	20	ME
Noah Sheidlower	NYU A	0	0	10	10	E
Penn State	Catholic University A	0	0	10	10	E
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	Copán Seethe	0	0	10	10	E
Say It Ain't Zhou	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	0	0	10	10	E
St. Marx	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	0	0	10	10	E
Stanford A	Team 8	0	0	10	10	E
Team 7	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10	E
Tennessee A	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	0	0	10	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	0	0	10	10	E
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	Licence to Bill	0	10	10	20	HE
UBC A	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	0	0	10	10	E
UNC Charity	The Imgur Link	0	0	10	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	10	20	ME
WashU	W&L+Friend	0	0	10	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	Guelph Cloze	10	0	10	20	ME
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	0	0	10	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	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	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	18.33	100%	33%	50%
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%