writer’s workshop - 2025 NAFTA

Packet 7: Bonus 19

A visit from his father spurs a Vietnamese-Australian man to leave Melbourne for one of these places in the autobiographical first story of Nam Le’s The Boat. For 10 points each:

[10e] What sort of place names a Calcutta-based publisher founded by P. Lal? Eleanor Catton and Bharati Mukherjee are among the graduates of a prestigious MFA program at the University of Iowa named for these places.

ANSWER: writer’s workshop [or writing workshop; accept the Iowa Writers’ Workshop]

[10m] This author’s memoir In the Dream House depicts her time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop amid an abusive relationship. This author of “The Husband Stitch” wrote a story told as 272 Law & Order: SVU episode synopses.

ANSWER: Carmen Maria Machado

[10h] In a story from this collection, the writing workshop organizer Edward mocks a woman’s “implausible” story about her father. In its title story, a girl becomes a waitress in Connecticut and starts dating a rich white boy after fleeing from her abusive visa sponsor uncle.

ANSWER: The Thing Around Your Neck (by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) (The first story is “Jumping Monkey Hill.”)

<TM, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
41	16.83	81%	63%	24%

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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	EM
Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!	Girls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam	10	10	0	20	EM
Berkeley A	Team 8	10	10	10	30	EMH
C R A B S	Dour Straits	10	10	0	20	EM
Capital One in the Twenty-First Century	Middlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club	10	10	10	30	EMH
Chicago !A	1000000 Delinquents	10	10	0	20	EM
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20	EM
David Foster Gromit	Copán Seethe	10	10	10	30	EMH
Dielectrical Materialism	The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy	10	10	0	20	EM
Execute Order 6 7	Quebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'	10	10	10	30	EMH
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20	EM
Habitat 67	Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and Gambinos	10	10	0	20	EM
I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	Licence to C. Wright Mill	0	0	0	0
In the Mood for Transportation Equipment	(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseball	10	10	0	20	EM
Invective Against Swans	Indiana	0	0	0	0
Lex	St. Marx	10	10	10	30	EMH
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞	Rosslyn Academic Team	10	10	10	30	EMH
Maybe Ever	W&L+Friend	10	10	0	20	EM
Munir Siddiqui Fan Club	JHU	10	10	0	20	EM
Muscle Mass Extinction Event	The tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.	10	10	10	30	EMH
NYU A	NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)	10	0	0	10	E
Northwestern	BHSU	10	0	0	10	E
Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs	It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife	0	0	0	0
Shipping Down from Ballston	Untitled Keyal Team	0	10	0	10	M
Stanford A	Not Old! (Old)	10	10	10	30	EMH
Stanford B	Team 7	10	0	0	10	E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	10	0	0	10	E
The "C" Team	Noah Sheidlower	0	0	0	0
The Fire Neg Time	Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa	10	10	0	20	EM
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHA	Say It Ain't Zhou	10	10	10	30	EMH
The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	Guelph Cloze	0	0	0	0
UBC A	Abbas I founded the Abbasids	10	10	0	20	EM
UBC B	The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players	0	0	0	0
UNC Charity	Contessa Dora	10	0	0	10	E
Untitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett	Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen Minmo	10	0	0	10	E
Vacuous Tortoise	H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs	10	0	0	10	E
WashU	The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals	10	10	0	20	EM
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	You Don't Have the Cards	0	0	0	0
[Redacted]	four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B	10	0	0	10	E
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income	The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's Back	10	10	0	20	EM
https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png	Catholic University A	10	10	10	30	EMH

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	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	4	2.50	25%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	18.33	83%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	10.00	60%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%