The Trials of Arabella - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 3: Bonus 17

In a novel’s opening line, this play is said to have been written “in a two-day tempest of composition,” causing its young author to “miss a breakfast and a lunch.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name or describe this fictional play, which concerns a woman who falls for a foreign count, then for the doctor who heals her cholera. This play is butchered by its author’s cousins in a performance that ends Chapter One.

ANSWER: The Trials of Arabella [accept descriptions of Briony Tallis’s play or Briony Tallis’s play or the play from Atonement]

[10e] Arabella’s story in The Trials of Arabella parallels Briony Tallis’s story in Atonement, a novel by this British author of Amsterdam and Saturday.

ANSWER: Ian McEwan [or Ian Russell McEwan]

[10m] In the epilogue, the Quincey kids perform the play for an elderly Briony, before the revelation that her sister actually died in one of these events. One of these events ends Maurice and Sarah’s affair in The End of the Affair.

ANSWER: bombing [or rocket blasts; accept Blitzkrieg or the Blitz or the Battle of Britain; prompt on explosions or battles; prompt on flooding with “caused by what type of event?”]

<TM, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-3

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	15.81	88%	58%	12%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	BHSU	10	10	10	30	HEM
Abbas I founded the Abbasids	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	0	10	0	10	E
Berkeley A	Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	10	10	10	30	HEM
Berkeley B	Not Old! (Old)	0	10	0	10	E
C R A B S	Dielectrical Materialism	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
Catholic University A	Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	0	0	0	0
Chicago !A	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	0	10	0	10	E
Contessa Dora	Rosslyn Academic Team	0	10	10	20	EM
Copán Seethe	David Foster Gromit	0	10	0	10	E
Dour Straits	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	0	10	10	20	EM
Execute Order 6 7	Indiana	10	10	10	30	HEM
Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	UTK	0	0	0	0
Guelph Cloze	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	0	10	10	20	EM
Habitat 67	NYU A	0	10	0	10	E
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	Northwestern	0	10	10	20	EM
Invective Against Swans	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	0	10	10	20	EM
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	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
Maybe Ever	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	0	10	0	10	E
Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	0	0	0	0
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	Mike and Psmith	0	10	10	20	EM
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	1000000 Delinquents	0	10	10	20	EM
Penn State	UNC Charity	0	10	10	20	EM
Say It Ain't Zhou	Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	0	10	0	10	E
Shipping Down from Ballston	Noah Sheidlower	0	10	0	10	E
Stanford A	Team 7	0	10	10	20	EM
Team 8	Stanford B	0	10	10	20	EM
The "C" Team	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	0	0	0	0
The Fire Neg Time	consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	10	10	10	30	HEM
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 Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	0	10	10	20	EM
The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	Lex	10	10	10	30	HEM
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	0	10	E
UBC B	UBC A	0	0	0	0
Untitled Keyal Team	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	0	10	10	20	EM
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	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
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	You Don't Have the Cards	0	10	0	10	E
[Redacted]	W&L+Friend	0	10	10	20	EM
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	JHU	0	10	10	20	EM

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford	01/17/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
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	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	16.00	80%	80%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%