Packet 1: Bonus 4
Lynette berates Sir Gareth as a “ladle-washer” in an unusually comic story that may be this author’s only original contribution to Arthurian legend. For 10 points each:
[10e] What 15th-century English author used a prison stay to rewrite French romances as Le Morte D’Arthur?
ANSWER: Sir Thomas Malory
[10m] Lynette rudely cheers on Gareth’s first opponent, Sir Pertolope, who goes by this title. A character with this title carries a holly bough in an alliterative poem that uses 46 lines to describe his adversary’s pentangle.
ANSWER: Green Knight [prompt on knight; prompt on Sir Bertilak de Hautdesert]
[10h] Sir Kay relentlessly mocks Gareth in his bel inconnu guise of a kitchen boy, giving him this nickname. This French-language nickname is a jibe at Gareth’s unsuitability for manual labor.
ANSWER: Beaumains [prompt on translations like beautiful hands or fair hands]
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 17.32 | 81% | 73% | 20% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever | Dielectrical Materialism | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Dour Straits | Vacuous Tortoise | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| No Country for Old Quizzers | H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 25% | 75% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |