Hiroshima - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 10: Bonus 8

This city alternately titles a Turkish poem that spread in unauthorized English translation when it was set to the tune of “The Great Selkie” by Pete Seeger and recorded by the Byrds. For 10 points each:

[10h] A girl from what city says “I knock and yet remain unseen” in a Nâzım Hikmet poem that begins “I come and stand at every door”?

ANSWER: Hiroshima [accept “Hiroshima Girl”]

[10e] This poet described watching the Siege of Beirut on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima in his long poem Memory for Forgetfulness. This Palestinian activist also wrote “Identity Card.”

ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish

[10m] The priest Fu-Kai witnesses the bomb in a poem by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, who is more famous for a 1960 collection titled for this stuff. This stuff appears in the euphemistic title of a Masuji Ibuse novel about Hiroshima.

ANSWER: rain [accept Black Rain or Kuroi Ame; accept Rain Song or ‘Unshudat al-Matar; prompt on water]

<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-10

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
30	15.33	100%	50%	3%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%