The Bells - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 3: Bonus 18

The A-flat major first movement of this symphony modulates to C-sharp minor for its slow middle section, where the choir hums an ostinato doubled by solo oboe and English horn. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this choral symphony that sets Konstantin Balmont’s free translation of an American poem.

ANSWER: The Bells [or Kolokola]

[10e] The Bells is a choral symphony by this large-handed Russian composer who imitated bells at the start of his second piano concerto in C minor.

ANSWER: Sergei Rachmaninoff [or Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff]

[10m] The second movement of The Bells is based on this melody, which begins “F, E, F, D, E, C, D, D.” The piano harmonizes this melody in block chords in the seventh variation of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

ANSWER: “Dies irae”

<FW, Auditory Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-3

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	16.74	100%	61%	7%

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Conversion

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

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%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%