O’Brien - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 9: Bonus 9

A memoir claims that a publisher with this surname was a serial liar who attacked his own company under the name “Professor Patrice Rousel” to drum up publicity. For 10 points each:

[10m] The founder of the Dalkey Archive Press and the author of The Dalkey Archive both used what surname? Another novel by that author who wrote under this surname features footnotes about the mad scientist De Selby.

ANSWER: O’Brien [accept Flann O’Brien or John O’Brien; accept Brian O’Nolan] (The unnamed novel is The Third Policeman.)

[10h] This William Gaddis superfan described his fractious time with John O’Brien in the memoir Dalkey Days. This critic surveyed works like A True Story and Blanquerna in the idiosyncratic The Novel: An Alternative History.

ANSWER: Steven Moore

[10e] When he discovered Gaddis, Moore abandoned his early project to create a multivolume glossary for this novel. Joseph Campbell wrote a “skeleton key” to this James Joyce novel, which begins with the word “riverrun.”

ANSWER: Finnegans Wake

<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-9

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
42	15.95	98%	57%	5%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
1000000 Delinquents	Execute Order 6 7	10	0	10	20	ME
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	10	0	10	20	ME
BHSU	Indiana	10	0	10	20	ME
Berkeley A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	10	0	10	20	ME
Berkeley B	Team 8	10	0	10	20	ME
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Fire Neg Time	10	0	10	20	ME
Catholic University A	UNC Charity	0	0	10	10	E
Chicago !A	Northwestern	10	0	10	20	ME
Contessa Dora	Penn State	10	0	10	20	ME
Copán Seethe	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	10	0	10	20	ME
Dielectrical Materialism	Dour Straits	10	0	10	20	ME
Guelph Cloze	Licence to Bill	0	0	10	10	E
Habitat 67	Untitled Keyal Team	10	0	10	20	ME
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Invective Against Swans	0	10	10	20	HE
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	David Foster Gromit	10	0	0	10	M
Lex	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	0	10	20	ME
Licence to C. Wright Mill	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	0	0	10	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	10	0	10	20	ME
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	0	0	10	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	10	10	30	MHE
NYU A	The "C" Team	10	0	10	20	ME
Noah Sheidlower	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	0	10	20	ME
Not Old! (Old)	Team 7	0	0	10	10	E
Rosslyn Academic Team	JHU	0	0	10	10	E
Shipping Down from Ballston	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	10	20	ME
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	0	0	10	10	E
Stanford A	Stanford B	10	0	10	20	ME
Tennessee A	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	0	10	10	E
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	0	0	10	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	10	0	10	20	ME
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	0	10	20	ME
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	10	0	10	20	ME
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	0	0	10	10	E
UBC A	UBC B	10	0	10	20	ME
Vacuous Tortoise	C R A B S	0	0	10	10	E
WashU	Maybe Ever	0	0	10	10	E
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	0	0	10	10	E
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	0	0	10	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	0	0	10	10	E
[Redacted]	St. Marx	10	0	10	20	ME
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	W&L+Friend	0	0	10	10	E
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Mike and Psmith	0	0	10	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	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	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%