Packet 9: Bonus 20
Answer the following about the short stories of Diane Oliver, whose brief career prior to her 1966 death in a motorcycle accident has gained recent attention, for 10 points each.
[10e] In her lifetime, Oliver’s biggest success was arguably the inclusion of her story “The Closet on the Top Floor” in an anthology of writing denoted by this regional adjective, which names the Gothic style of Flannery O’Connor.
ANSWER: Southern [accept the South]
[10h] Oliver’s 2024 debut collection is titled for this story, in which a black family sends their son to an all-white school. It shares its title with a story in which Bill Miller puts on Harriet Stone’s dress while feeding her cat.
ANSWER: “Neighbors” (The latter story is by Raymond Carver.)
[10m] Tayari Jones’s introduction to Oliver’s collection Neighbors and Other Stories compares her favorably to this author, whose short stories include “Sweat” and “The Gilded Six-Bits.”
ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston
<TM, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-9
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 15.45 | 100% | 50% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞ | Munir Siddiqui Fan Club | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Penn State | Contessa Dora | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |