Packet 3: Bonus 20
Some adults added the particle “-gery” or the word “hut” when asked what they would call a house that one of these beings lived in, while 50 percent simply added “house” to the end of their name. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these beings, drawn to resemble bird-like animals, that were the subject of several of the 28 questions given to children in Cambridge and Brookline, Massachusetts by Jean Berko Gleason.
ANSWER: wugs
[10e] Gleason found that none of the children added the suffix “-let” to create this word form, which denotes smallness. In Spanish, the suffixes “-ito” and “-ita” create this word form.
ANSWER: diminutive
[10h] Along with real verbs like mottled, melted, rang, and binged, children were asked to guess the suffix to indicate the past tense with several made up verbs. Name any one of these fake verbs.
ANSWER: rick or gling or spow or bodd [ricked or glinged or spowed or bodded]
<EC, Social Science> | NAFTA-Packet-3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 18.18 | 100% | 79% | 3% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital One in the Twenty-First Century | Surrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law income | The Fire Neg Time | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |