Packet 10: Bonus 8
This city alternately titles a Turkish poem that spread in unauthorized English translation when it was set to the tune of “The Great Selkie” by Pete Seeger and recorded by the Byrds. For 10 points each:
[10h] A girl from what city says “I knock and yet remain unseen” in a Nâzım Hikmet poem that begins “I come and stand at every door”?
ANSWER: Hiroshima [accept “Hiroshima Girl”]
[10e] This poet described watching the Siege of Beirut on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima in his long poem Memory for Forgetfulness. This Palestinian activist also wrote “Identity Card.”
ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish
[10m] The priest Fu-Kai witnesses the bomb in a poem by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, who is more famous for a 1960 collection titled for this stuff. This stuff appears in the euphemistic title of a Masuji Ibuse novel about Hiroshima.
ANSWER: rain [accept Black Rain or Kuroi Ame; accept Rain Song or ‘Unshudat al-Matar; prompt on water]
<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 15.33 | 100% | 50% | 3% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Neg of Beauty is a Joy Forever | The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the Easy | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Dour Straits | Vacuous Tortoise | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| H Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs | No Country for Old Quizzers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
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 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |