Packet 1: Bonus 15
Sabbatai Zevi used this practice to show that his name and the words “the true messiah” had equal value. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this method of exegesis that medieval Kabbalists used along with notariqon acronyming and temurah word rearrangement. This practice assigns three to Gimel and four to Dalet.
ANSWER: gematria [accept gimatriot; prompt on numerology; prompt on isopsephy]
[10e] In Kabbalah, each letter is assigned to a path connecting the spherical nodes of this diagram. This diagram shares its name with an object in the Garden of Eden whose counterpart bestowed knowledge of good and evil.
ANSWER: Tree of Life [or Etz Hayim; or Etz Chaim; or Ēṣ Ḥayyīm]
[10h] Pencil and paper ready. Compute the total standard gematric value of the letters in the Hebrew Tetragrammaton. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: 26
<HA, Beliefs> | NAFTA-Packet-1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 15.75 | 90% | 63% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever | Dielectrical Materialism | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| No Country for Old Quizzers | H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Vacuous Tortoise | Dour Straits | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
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 | ✓ | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 83% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |