Packet 2: Bonus 11
Canadian poet Erín Moure initially used Franglais and Mohawk to translate a multilingual Wilson Bueno novel narrated by a person of unclear gender from this country. For 10 points each:
[10m] Helen Lane left many words from what country’s vocabulary untranslated in her version of a dense, punning novel made up of dictations by one of its leaders, I, the Supreme?
ANSWER: Paraguay [or Republic of Paraguay or República del Paraguay or Paraguái Tavakuairetã; accept Paraguayan Sea or Mar paraguayo] (Yo el Supremo is by Augusto Roa Bastos.)
[10e] An issue on Guaraní poetry began the Indigenous Writing Project of a magazine titled for “Words Without” these things. These things title both a Gloria Anzaldúa book on Chicana identity and a trilogy by Cormac McCarthy.
ANSWER: borders [or borderlands or frontiers; accept Words Without Borders; accept Borderlands/La Frontera; accept The Border Trilogy]
[10h] The aimless narrator of this historical novel loses his money and hands as a “victim of expectation” in colonial Asunción. This Antonio di Benedetto novel first appeared in English in Esther Allen’s 2016 translation for NYRB.
ANSWER: Zama
<HA, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-2
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 13.51 | 84% | 41% | 11% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife | Copán Seethe | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs | David Foster Gromit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 50% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✕ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |