The Laws of Manu - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 7: Bonus 7

A much-debated verse in this text states that “a woman must never be independent,” subject to her father, husband, and sons from youth to old age. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this dharmashastra, which the British used as their main source for official “Hindu Law,” although it is a moral commentary and not a legal code.

ANSWER: The Laws of Manu [or the Manusmrti or Manusmriti or the Manava Dharmashastra]

[10e] The Manusmriti is attributed to Manu and Bhrigu, who are Manasaputra, or “mind-born children" of this god. This creator god is the least celebrated member of the Trimurti.

ANSWER: Brahma [accept Prajapati; reject “Brahman”]

[10h] Description acceptable. On December 25, this sect celebrates when its founder burned the Manusmriti to protest its teachings on varna. The vows first taken at Nagpur by this sect begin by disavowing Brahma, Vishnu, and Maheshwara.

ANSWER: Ambedkarite Buddhism [or Neo-Buddhism; accept Dalit Buddhism; accept Navayana Buddhism accept descriptions of the Buddhist denomination founded by B.R. Ambedkar; accept Buddhists in place of Buddhism for any of these answers; prompt on Indian Buddhism; prompt on Ambedkarites]

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Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
33	18.48	94%	55%	36%

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Conversion

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✕	5	20.00	100%	40%	60%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✕	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	25.00	100%	67%	83%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%