Odysseus - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 9: Bonus 17

This character’s continuing adventures make up the lost Telegony, in which his son unknowingly stabs him with a spear tipped with the barb of a stingray. For 10 points each:

[10e] Dante is one of many poets to invent an ocean-based death for what one-time prisoner of Circe?

ANSWER: Odysseus [or Ulysses]

[10h] The Telegony contradicts the Odyssey’s prophecy that Odysseus will achieve a peaceful death by doing this action. Tiresias directs Odysseus to return home, do this action, and make a sacrifice on the spot to Poseidon.

ANSWER: carry an oar inland [accept descriptions of walking with an oar until no one recognizes what it is; accept descriptions of sticking an oar in the ground]

[10m] The stingray barb story survives in the Biblioteca, a compendium once attributed to Apollodorus of Athens; Apollodorus did write a commentary on this Homeric passage that names the “the leaders and lords of the Danaans.”

ANSWER: “Catalogue of Ships” [or “Neōn Katálogos”; prompt on Book 2 of the Iliad; prompt on descriptions of the list of Achaean captains, the list of Argives, the enumeration of Greek forces, or the passage about Greek ships; reject “Catalogue of Trojans”]

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

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
38	21.05	100%	87%	24%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	10	0	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	10	0	10	20	EM
C R A B S	Vacuous Tortoise	10	0	10	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Fire Neg Time	10	10	10	30	EHM
Contessa Dora	Penn State	10	0	10	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	10	0	10	20	EM
Dour Straits	Dielectrical Materialism	10	0	10	20	EM
Execute Order 6 7	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	10	30	EHM
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	10	10	30	EHM
Habitat 67	Untitled Keyal Team	10	0	10	20	EM
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Invective Against Swans	10	10	10	30	EHM
Indiana	BHSU	10	0	10	20	EM
JHU	Rosslyn Academic Team	10	0	10	20	EM
Lex	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	0	10	20	EM
Licence to Bill	Guelph Cloze	10	0	10	20	EM
Licence to C. Wright Mill	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	10	0	10	20	EM
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	10	10	30	EHM
Mike and Psmith	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	10	0	0	10	E
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	10	0	10	20	EM
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	0	10	20	EM
NYU A	The "C" Team	10	0	10	20	EM
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Noah Sheidlower	10	0	10	20	EM
Northwestern	Chicago !A	10	0	10	20	EM
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	Copán Seethe	10	0	10	20	EM
Shipping Down from Ballston	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	0	10	20	EM
St. Marx	[Redacted]	10	0	0	10	E
Stanford B	Stanford A	10	10	10	30	EHM
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	10	20	EM
Team 7	Not Old! (Old)	10	0	10	20	EM
Team 8	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30	EHM
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	0	10	20	EM
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	10	0	0	10	E
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	0	10	20	EM
UBC B	UBC A	10	0	0	10	E
UNC Charity	Catholic University A	10	0	10	20	EM
WashU	Maybe Ever	10	10	10	30	EHM
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	10	0	0	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	10	10	30	EHM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%