the Mahabharata - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 3: Bonus 7

A lavish outdoor adaptation of this work was timed to run exactly from sunset to sunrise and used what the director referred to as “colour-rich” casting from around the world. For 10 points each:

[10h] Peter Brook spent 10 years adapting what work into a nine-hour-long play with Jean-Claude Carrière? That adaptation was first staged in a quarry outside Avignon in 1985.

ANSWER: the Mahabharata [accept Le Mahabharata]

[10e] In Peter Brook’s epic production of the Mahabharata, the dialogue between Karna and Kunti adapts this author’s poetry word-for-word. This Bengali Nobel Laureate’s own dramas include The Post Office.

ANSWER: Rabindranath Tagore [or Rabindranath Thakur]

[10m] Tagore drew on the Mahabharata for Chitrangada, one of a group of four dramas performed in this manner. Aattakatha are costumed dramas performed in this manner within the Malayali genre of kathakali.

ANSWER: dance [accept word forms like dancing; accept dance-dramas or nritya-nāṭya; accept Rabindra Nritya Natya]

<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-3

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	15.12	100%	42%	9%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	0	10	0	10	E
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	0	10	10	20	EM
BHSU	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	0	10	10	20	EM
Berkeley A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	0	10	10	20	EM
C R A B S	Dielectrical Materialism	0	10	0	10	E
Chicago !A	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	10	0	20	HE
David Foster Gromit	Copán Seethe	0	10	0	10	E
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Say It Ain't Zhou	0	10	10	20	EM
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	UTK	0	10	0	10	E
Guelph Cloze	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	0	10	0	10	E
H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	Dour Straits	0	10	10	20	EM
Habitat 67	NYU A	0	10	0	10	E
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	0	10	10	20	EM
Indiana	Execute Order 6 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Licence to Bill	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	0	10	0	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	0	10	0	10	E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Catholic University A	0	10	10	20	EM
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	0	10	E
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	10	30	HEM
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	0	10	E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	Untitled Keyal Team	0	10	10	20	EM
No Country for Old Quizzers	Vacuous Tortoise	0	10	0	10	E
Noah Sheidlower	Shipping Down from Ballston	0	10	0	10	E
Northwestern	In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	0	10	10	20	EM
Not Old! (Old)	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10	E
Penn State	UNC Charity	10	10	10	30	HEM
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	0	10	10	20	EM
Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	Invective Against Swans	0	10	0	10	E
Rosslyn Academic Team	Contessa Dora	0	10	10	20	EM
St. Marx	WashU	0	10	10	20	EM
Stanford A	Team 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Stanford B	Team 8	0	10	0	10	E
Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	0	10	10	20	EM
The "C" Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	10	0	10	E
The Fire Neg Time	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	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	0	10	E
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	Lex	10	10	0	20	HE
UBC B	UBC A	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
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	JHU	0	10	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC	01/17/2026	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
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%