spleen - 2025 NAFTA - Buzzpoints

Packet 6: Bonus 10

This affliction is the subject of a poem by 18th-century one-hit-wonder Matthew Green, who wrote that “Monkeys have been / Extreme good doctors” for it. For 10 points each:

[10h] What title affliction is addressed in a Pindaric ode by Anne Finch that contrasts real sufferers with the fool who “to imitate the wits / Complains of thy pretended fits?”

ANSWER: spleen [accept “The Spleen: a Pindaric Poem”; accept “The Spleen: An Epistle to Mr. Cuthbert Jackson”; accept Matthew Green’s nickname “Spleen Green”]

[10e] This essay laments that the male world of Augustan poetry forced Finch, “whose mind was tuned to nature and reflection… to anger and bitterness.” This Virginia Woolf essay imagines Shakespeare’s fictional sister, Judith.

ANSWER: “A Room of One’s Own”

[10m] In a scene that seems to reference Finch’s poem, a bag of “sighs, sobs and passions” from the Cave of Spleen triggers a character’s fury over this object. This object is set in the stars to add “new glory to the shining sphere.”

ANSWER: the lock of hair [or Belinda’s hair] (from Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”)

<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-6

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	17.91	98%	70%	12%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	10	10	30	HEM
1000000 Delinquents	Northwestern	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!	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	10	0	10	E
BHSU	Invective Against Swans	0	10	10	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	10	0	20	HE
Chicago !A	Execute Order 6 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 8	0	10	10	20	EM
Contessa Dora	Mike and Psmith	0	10	10	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	Copán Seethe	0	10	10	20	EM
Dielectrical Materialism	Dour Straits	0	10	0	10	E
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	0	10	0	10	E
Guelph Cloze	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	0	10	0	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	0	10	0	10	E
Habitat 67	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	10	10	10	30	HEM
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	0	10	0	10	E
Indiana	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	10	10	30	HEM
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	0	10	10	20	EM
JHU	UNC Charity	0	10	10	20	EM
Lex	Maybe Ever	0	10	10	20	EM
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Penn State	0	10	10	20	EM
NYU A	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	0	10	10	20	EM
Noah Sheidlower	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	10	10	20	EM
Not Old! (Old)	Team 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	0	10	0	10	E
Rosslyn Academic Team	Catholic University A	0	10	10	20	EM
Shipping Down from Ballston	The "C" Team	0	10	10	20	EM
St. Marx	W&L+Friend	0	10	10	20	EM
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20	EM
Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	0	10	10	20	EM
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	No Country for Old Quizzers	0	10	10	20	EM
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20	EM
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	0	10	10	20	EM
UBC A	UBC B	0	10	0	10	E
Untitled Keyal Team	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	10	10	30	HEM
Vacuous Tortoise	C R A B S	0	10	10	20	EM
WashU	[Redacted]	0	10	10	20	EM
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	0	0	0	0
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	Licence to C. Wright Mill	0	10	0	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	Licence to Bill	0	10	10	20	EM
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	0	10	10	20	EM
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	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%	75%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%