Packet 11: Bonus 12
This action titles a lyrical 2024 biography written “on the path of” a musician by the music critic Ann Powers. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this action that is repeated four times at the start of the song “All I Want.” In another song by the same artist, a “defector from the petty wars” pairs a line about this action with the line “I’m sitting in some cafe.”
ANSWER: traveling [prompt on driving or riding in a car with “what is the specific verb used in that line?”]
[10e] Travel is a recurring theme on albums like Blue and Hejira by this Canadian folk singer-songwriter known for her songs “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You.”
ANSWER: Joni Mitchell [or Roberta Joan Mitchell; or Roberta Joan Anderson]
[10m] Joni Mitchell wrote this song after a passage in Henderson the Rain King inspired her to look out the window of her plane. This song, which opens, “Rows and floes of angel hair,” states “I really don’t know love at all.”
ANSWER: “Both Sides Now”
<TM, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 13.33 | 92% | 42% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lex | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maybe Ever | The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| St. Marx | four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| [Redacted] | W&L+Friend | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |