Team 8 (2026 NAFTA at Stanford)
John Xiang | Stephen Liu

CategoryOpponentEasyMediumHardTotalParts
BeliefsStanford ATree of Life(2)✓gematria(1)✕26(3)✕10E
BeliefsStanford BJews AND Gentiles(1)✕Antioch on the Orontes(3)✓olive branches(2)✕10M
BeliefsStanford ABodhidharma(2)✓Tendai (3)✕Prince Shōtoku(1)✕10E
BeliefsStanford BDiwali(3)✓Mount Meru(2)✓Paryushana(1)✕20EM
BeliefsTeam 7feathers(2)✓smoking ceremonies(1)✓fancy dance(3)✕20EM
BeliefsTeam 7Musa(2)✓Dhu al-Qarnayn(3)✕Surah Al-Kahf(1)✕10E
Fine Arts - AuditoryStanford Atrumpet(1)✓Brandenburg Concerto No. 2(2)✕Maurice André(3)✕10E
Fine Arts - AuditoryStanford BSergei Rachmaninoff(2)✓“Dies irae”(3)✕The Bells(1)✕10E
Fine Arts - AuditoryTeam 7“Summertime”(1)✓jubilee(3)✕a motherless child(2)✕10E
Fine Arts - VisualStanford Abathing(3)✓Georges Seurat(1)✕Conté crayons(2)✕10E
Fine Arts - VisualStanford BRococo(2)✓fêtes galantes(1)✓hurdy-gurdy(3)✕20EM
Fine Arts - VisualTeam 7MoMA(2)✓Willem de Kooning(3)✕Frank O’Hara(1)✓20EH
GeographyStanford BThe Bahamas(2)✓Providence(3)✕Turks Islands(1)✕10E
GeographyTeam 7Orange County(2)✓Santa Ana(3)✓Los Angeles(1)✕20EM
History - AmericanStanford AHUAC(2)✓Lavender Scare(3)✓Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation(1)✓30EMH
History - AmericanStanford BBeecher(3)✓domesticity(1)✕Godey’s Lady’s Book(2)✕10E
History - AmericanTeam 7George W. Bush(1)✓Ted Kennedy(2)✓he forgot Poland(3)✕20EM
History - EuropeanStanford AMalta(1)✓Paul I(2)✕James Gillray(3)✕10E
History - EuropeanTeam 7Solidarity(2)✓Wojciech Jaruzelski(3)✕dwarves(1)✕10E
History - OtherStanford AOlmecs(1)✓Teotihuacan(2)✕batey(3)✕10E
History - OtherStanford BThree Kingdoms period(2)✓Jìn dynasty(1)✓Gāopíng tombs(3)✓30EMH
History - OtherTeam 7Vedas(1)✓cattle raids(3)✓Kuru Kingdom(2)✕20EM
History - WorldStanford AKublai Khan(2)✓kurultai(1)✕Mongolian wrestling(3)✕10E
History - WorldStanford BNew Persian(1)✓Bukhara(3)✕Buyid dynasty(2)✕10E
History - WorldTeam 7sugarcane(2)✓Trinidad(1)✕apprenticeship(3)✕10E
Literature - AmericanStanford AEmily Dickinson(2)✓“My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun”(3)✕volcanoes(1)✕10E
Literature - AmericanStanford BJack Kerouac(1)✓angels(3)✕Desolation Peak(2)✕10E
Literature - AmericanTeam 7William Faulkner(1)✓pocket watch(2)✕The Wild Palms(3)✕10E
Literature - BritishStanford ASir Thomas Malory(1)✓Green Knight(2)✓Beaumains(3)✕20EM
Literature - BritishStanford BIan McEwan(2)✓bombing(3)✓The Trials of Arabella(1)✕20EM
Literature - EuropeanStanford Ametamorphosis(2)✓thief(3)✓Jean-Paul Sartre AND Jean Genet(1)✕20EM
Literature - EuropeanStanford BFriedrich Nietzsche(1)✓Faust, Part Two(3)✓self-fashioning(2)✕20EM
Literature - EuropeanTeam 7shield of Achilles(3)✓Battle of Thermopylae(2)✕ut pictura poesis(1)✕10E
Literature - WorldStanford Arunning(1)✓Osamu Dazai(2)✕baseball player(3)✕10E
Literature - WorldStanford BRabindranath Tagore(2)✓dance(3)✕the Mahabharata(1)✕10E
Literature - WorldTeam 7The Tragedy of Julius Caesar(1)✓John Kani(2)✓Sol Plaatje(3)✕20EM
Modern WorldStanford BGood Friday Agreement(1)✓Democratic Unionist Party(2)✓harmful algal bloom(3)✕20EM
Modern WorldStanford ATreaty of Waitangi(2)✓haka(1)✓UNDRIP(3)✕20EM
Other AcademicStanford Acholera(3)✓Guinness Brewery(1)✓“The Two Cultures”(2)✓30EMH
Other AcademicTeam 7postage stamps(2)✓‘pataphysics(3)✓coffeepot(1)✓30EMH
Other Auditory Fine ArtsTeam 7Spain(3)✓Chick Corea(1)✕Gary Burton(2)✕10E
Other Science (Astronomy)Stanford Aexoplanets(3)✓gravitational waves(1)✕millisecond pulsars(2)✕10E
Other Science (Computer Science)Stanford Bclassification(2)✓complexity(3)✓probably approximately correct learning(1)✓30EMH
Other Science (Math)Team 7integers(2)✓Banach-Tarski paradox(3)✕free product(1)✕10E
Other Visual Fine ArtsStanford Aglass(1)✓faience(2)✕Kāshān(3)✕10E
Other Visual Fine ArtsStanford BSergio Leone(2)✓acid(3)✓ramen(1)✕20EM
Other Visual Fine ArtsTeam 7negative(2)✓Julia Margaret Cameron(3)✕calotype(1)✕10E
PhilosophyStanford AHannah Arendt(1)✓radical evil(2)✕the mass-man(3)✕10E
PhilosophyStanford BTractatus Logico-Philosophicus(2)✓throwing away the ladder(3)✓therapy(1)✕20EM
PhilosophyTeam 7humors(2)✓al-Kindī(1)✕Brethren of Purity(3)✕10E
Science - BiologyStanford Atrawling(2)✓marine snow(3)✓glass sponge reefs(1)✕20EM
Science - BiologyTeam 7phylogenetic trees(1)✓transversions or transitions(3)✕Jukes–Cantor model(2)✕10E
Science - BiologyStanford BDNA replication(1)✓hairpins(2)✕concatemers(3)✕10E
Science - ChemistryStanford Bpolymers(1)✓cooperativity(2)✓Bruno Zimm(3)✕20EM
Science - ChemistryTeam 7amines(1)✓tautomerization(3)✕oximes(2)✕10E
Science - ChemistryStanford Alanthanides(3)✓adsorption(1)✓zeolitic imidazolate frameworks(2)✕20EM
Science - PhysicsStanford AJoseph-Louis Lagrange(2)✓nutation(3)✓Sofia Kovalevskaya(1)✕20EM
Science - PhysicsStanford Bresonance(1)✓spectral line broadening(3)✕Gregory Breit AND Eugene Wigner(2)✕10E
Science - PhysicsTeam 7torus(2)✓dynamos(1)✕ambipolar diffusion(3)✕10E
Social ScienceStanford Bdiminutive(2)✓wugs(1)✓rick or gling or spow or bodd(3)✕20EM
Social ScienceTeam 7labor(3)✓capital asset pricing model(2)✕generalized method of moments(1)✕10E
Social ScienceStanford AC. Wright Mills(2)✓Thomas Frank(3)✓Listen(1)✕20EM