Packet 2: Bonus 13
This author added “Amadeus” to his name after writing a story in which a character dreams of two titans who represent the root and fifth of a triad. For 10 points each:
[10e] What author inspired a Tchaikovsky ballet by writing “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”?
ANSWER: E. T. A. Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann]
[10h] In this Hoffman story, a strange man from the Tiergarten relays a dream about a disembodied eye that promises the sweet voice of thirds. This story’s title character sings an aria from blank pages then claims to be a dead composer.
ANSWER: “Ritter Gluck”
[10m] Because this Hoffmann character used a biography of Kapellmeister Kreisler as blotting paper, pages of the biography are mixed with his memoirs. This highly intelligent tomcat lives with the alchemist Master Abraham.
ANSWER: Tomcat Murr [accept The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr]
<FW, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 13.95 | 93% | 47% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lex | W&L+Friend | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| St. Marx | Maybe Ever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| The Worst Trade Deal in the History of Trade Deals | [Redacted] | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| four high school generalists shock natives with fluent stock in Tocharian B | WashU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |