The Dog in the Manger - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 10: Bonus 5

The gracioso character of this play, Tristán, resolves the central point of honor by making up a string of nonsense Greek names and claiming that his master is actually from a family of Byzantine nobles. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Spanish Golden Age play in which the Countess Diana falls in love with her social inferior, Teodoro, and refuses to let him marry her lady-in-waiting. This play is titled for a Greek fable.

ANSWER: The Dog in the Manger [or The Gardener’s Dog; or El Perro del Hortelano] (by Lope de Vega)

[10h] The Dog in the Manger is one of Lope de Vega’s many entries in this Golden Age genre. Double weddings, love triangles, and resourceful graciosos were features of this genre, which is named for its gallant costumes.

ANSWER: cloak and sword [or comedia de capa y espada; accept cloak and dagger]

[10e] The gracioso represented this theatrical archetype in Spanish Golden Age drama, usually with the job of servant. In commedia dell’arte, Pierrot and Harlequin belong to this theatrical archetype.

ANSWER: clown [or jester; or fool; or buffoon; or joker; accept comic relief; accept trickster; prompt on Zanni]

<HA, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-10

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
30	15.00	93%	47%	10%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	0	10	20	ME
BHSU	1000000 Delinquents	10	0	10	20	ME
Berkeley B	Not Old! (Old)	0	10	10	20	HE
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Stanford B	10	10	10	30	MHE
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	0	0	10	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	0	10	20	ME
Indiana	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	0	10	20	ME
Invective Against Swans	Northwestern	0	0	10	10	E
Lex	Maybe Ever	0	0	10	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	10	0	10	20	ME
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	0	0	0	0
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	Execute Order 6 7	0	0	10	10	E
NYU A	Untitled Keyal Team	0	10	10	20	HE
NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	0	0	10	10	E
No Country for Old Quizzers	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	0	0	10	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	0	0	10	10	E
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Chicago !A	10	0	10	20	ME
Say It Ain't Zhou	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	0	10	20	ME
Shipping Down from Ballston	Habitat 67	10	0	10	20	ME
St. Marx	W&L+Friend	10	0	0	10	M
Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20	ME
Team 8	Team 7	0	0	10	10	E
Tennessee A	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	10	0	10	20	ME
The "C" Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	0	10	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	0	10	20	ME
Vacuous Tortoise	Dour Straits	0	0	10	10	E
WashU	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	0	0	10	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	10	0	10	20	ME
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	0	0	10	10	E
four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	[Redacted]	0	0	10	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%