melancholy science - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 9: Bonus 15

The dedication to Minima Moralia opens by claiming that this discipline “relates to a realm which has counted… as the authentic one of philosophy” but has “fallen prey to intellectual disrespect.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this two-word discipline that Theodor Adorno coined to describe the philosophical “teaching of the good life.” Gillian Rose used this phrase to title her book on Adorno’s thought.

ANSWER: melancholy science [or traurige Wissenschaft]

[10e] Thomas Carlyle coined the term “dismal science” as a mocking descriptor of this discipline, which is the subject of early textbooks by Alfred Marshall and Paul Samuelson.

ANSWER: economics [or econ]

[10m] Riffing on “dismal science,” this person called software engineering the “doomed discipline.” This person devised the dining philosophers problem and wrote the letter to the editor “Go To Statement Considered Harmful.”

ANSWER: Edsger W. Dijkstra

<TM, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-9

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
42	14.05	91%	48%	2%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	0	10	10	20	EM
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	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	10	10	10	30	HEM
Chicago !A	Northwestern	0	10	0	10	E
Copán Seethe	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	10	10	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	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
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	0	0	0	0
Guelph Cloze	Licence to Bill	0	10	10	20	EM
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	0	10	10	20	EM
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Invective Against Swans	0	10	0	10	E
Indiana	BHSU	0	10	10	20	EM
JHU	Rosslyn Academic Team	0	10	10	20	EM
Lex	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	0	10	10	20	EM
Licence to C. Wright Mill	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	0	10	0	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	0	10	0	10	E
NYU A	The "C" Team	0	10	10	20	EM
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Noah Sheidlower	0	10	0	10	E
Not Old! (Old)	Team 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Penn State	Contessa Dora	0	10	0	10	E
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
Shipping Down from Ballston	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	10	10	20	EM
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	0	10	0	10	E
St. Marx	[Redacted]	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Stanford B	0	10	0	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	0	10	0	10	E
Team 8	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10	E
Tennessee A	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	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	0	0	0
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	10	20	EM
UBC B	UBC A	0	10	0	10	E
UNC Charity	Catholic University A	0	0	10	10	M
Untitled Keyal Team	Habitat 67	0	10	10	20	EM
Vacuous Tortoise	C R A B S	0	10	0	10	E
W&L+Friend	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	0	10	0	10	E
WashU	Maybe Ever	0	10	10	20	EM
You Don't Have the Cards	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	0	0	10	10	M
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	0	10	0	10	E
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	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	14.00	80%	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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%