Madurai - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 9: Bonus 1

The third of three legendary gatherings took place in this city after the first two sites were “seized by the ocean.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this city where the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Idylls were written. A faithful woman curses this city to burn by tearing off her breast following the wrongful execution of her husband for stealing the queen’s anklet.

ANSWER: Madurai

[10e] Madurai burns to the ground at the end of Cilappatikāram (“chil-luh-pah-tih-KAH-rum”), one of the Five Great Epics of this South Asian Dravidian language.

ANSWER: Tamil [or Thamizh]

[10m] Madurai hosted the third of these gatherings, which lasted for 1,850 years. U. V. Swaminatha Iyer helped republish much of the lost literature written during these semi-legendary gatherings of Tamil poets.

ANSWER: sangams [or caṅkam; accept kaṭaicaṅkam]

<TC, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-9

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
37	14.59	97%	43%	5%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	0	10	0	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	0	10	0	10	E
BHSU	Indiana	0	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley B	Team 8	10	10	10	30	HEM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Fire Neg Time	0	10	10	20	EM
Chicago !A	Northwestern	0	10	0	10	E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20	EM
Contessa Dora	Penn State	0	10	0	10	E
Dour Straits	Dielectrical Materialism	0	10	0	10	E
Execute Order 6 7	1000000 Delinquents	0	10	10	20	EM
Habitat 67	Untitled Keyal Team	0	10	0	10	E
Invective Against Swans	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	0	10	0	10	E
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
JHU	Rosslyn Academic Team	0	10	10	20	EM
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	0	0	0
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	0	10	10	20	EM
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	0	10	0	10	E
NYU A	The "C" Team	0	10	0	10	E
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	10	0	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	0	10	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	Copán Seethe	0	10	10	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	10	0	10	E
Say It Ain't Zhou	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10	E
Shipping Down from Ballston	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	10	0	10	E
St. Marx	[Redacted]	10	10	10	30	HEM
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	10	10	20	EM
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	0	10	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	0	10	0	10	E
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	0	10	10	20	EM
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	Lex	0	10	10	20	EM
UBC A	UBC B	0	10	0	10	E
UNC Charity	Catholic University A	0	10	0	10	E
Vacuous Tortoise	C R A B S	0	10	10	20	EM
WashU	Maybe Ever	0	10	0	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	W&L+Friend	0	10	10	20	EM
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Mike and Psmith	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%