Víkingur Ólafsson - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 7: Bonus 11

This pianist’s arrangement of an interlude from Rameau’s Les Boréades (“lay boh-ray-AHD”) is titled “The Arts and the Hours.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this pianist who arranged two sonatas by Domenico Cimarosa (“chee-ma-RO-sa”) for his 2021 album Mozart & Contemporaries. This pianist is sometimes called “Iceland’s Glenn Gould” for his love of J. S. Bach.

ANSWER: Víkingur (“VEE-keen-goor”) Ólafsson [prompt on Ólafsson]

[10e] Víkingur won the 2025 Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his recording of this Bach piece. Glenn Gould made landmark 1956 and 1981 recordings of this set of variations.

ANSWER: Goldberg Variations [or BWV 988]

[10m] In 2025, Víkingur played a series of four-handed piano concerts with this other musician. This pianist performed all of Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in a 2023 concert at Carnegie Hall.

ANSWER: Yuja Wang [or Wang Yujia]

<TC, Auditory Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-7

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
43	19.07	98%	65%	28%

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Conversion

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

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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	20.00	80%	80%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	22.50	100%	50%	75%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%