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Packet 2: Bonus 7

A set of four short surahs that start with the word “Qul,” meaning “say,” are commonly memorized for recitation. For 10 points each:

[10e] The so-called “four Quls” are recited for protection from the sin of shirk, which violates this belief. The first part of the Shahada affirms this belief.

ANSWER: tawhid [or monotheism; accept answers describing of the unity of God or there is only one god or God is one or there is no god but God or lā ilāha illā ‘llāh; accept Allah in place of God]

[10m] The four Quls are often recited for protection before performing this action, which is done before the tahajjud prayer. Shi’a jurists condemn Sunni use of the phrase “prayer is better than [this action]” as an innovation by Umar.

ANSWER: sleeping

[10h] Along with Al-Kāfirūn and Al-Ikhlāṣ, these two surahs make up the four Quls. These last two surahs of the Quran are known as Al-Muʿawwidhatayn (“moo-AW-wih-tha-TAYN”) because they begin by seeking ‘ādhā, or protection, in God. Name either.

ANSWER: Al-Falaq OR An-Nās [accept The Daybreak OR Mankind; accept Dawn or Sunrise for al-Falaq; accept Humanity or The Human Race for an-Nās; reject “al-Fajr”]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
38	15.53	97%	37%	21%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	UBC A	10	0	0	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	0	0	10	E
BHSU	Muscle Mass Extinction Event	10	0	0	10	E
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	10	30	EMH
Berkeley B	Stanford B	10	0	0	10	E
C R A B S	A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	10	0	0	10	E
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	10	10	30	EMH
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Team 7	10	10	0	20	EM
Dielectrical Materialism	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	10	0	20	EM
Execute Order 6 7	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20	EM
Habitat 67	Shipping Down from Ballston	10	0	0	10	E
Indiana	1000000 Delinquents	10	0	0	10	E
Invective Against Swans	Chicago !A	10	0	0	10	E
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Copán Seethe	10	0	0	10	E
JHU	Catholic University A	10	0	0	10	E
Lex	W&L+Friend	10	10	10	30	EMH
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	UNC Charity	10	10	0	20	EM
Maybe Ever	St. Marx	10	0	0	10	E
Mike and Psmith	Rosslyn Academic Team	0	0	0	0
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Contessa Dora	10	0	0	10	E
NYU A	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	0	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	0	0	10	E
No Country for Old Quizzers	Dour Straits	10	10	10	30	EMH
Penn State	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	10	0	10	20	EH
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	David Foster Gromit	10	10	0	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	10	0	0	10	E
Say It Ain't Zhou	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	10	0	10	20	EH
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	The Fire Neg Time	10	10	0	20	EM
Team 8	Not Old! (Old)	10	0	0	10	E
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	Vacuous Tortoise	10	0	0	10	E
The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	UBC B	10	10	10	30	EMH
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	[Redacted]	10	0	0	10	E
The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	Northwestern	10	10	10	30	EMH
Untitled Keyal Team	The "C" Team	10	10	0	20	EM
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	Noah Sheidlower	10	0	0	10	E
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	0	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	WashU	10	10	0	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	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	2	60.00	200%	200%	200%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	12.00	80%	20%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%