Packet 7: Bonus 19
A visit from his father spurs a Vietnamese-Australian man to leave Melbourne for one of these places in the autobiographical first story of Nam Le’s The Boat. For 10 points each:
[10e] What sort of place names a Calcutta-based publisher founded by P. Lal? Eleanor Catton and Bharati Mukherjee are among the graduates of a prestigious MFA program at the University of Iowa named for these places.
ANSWER: writer’s workshop [or writing workshop; accept the Iowa Writers’ Workshop]
[10m] This author’s memoir In the Dream House depicts her time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop amid an abusive relationship. This author of “The Husband Stitch” wrote a story told as 272 Law & Order: SVU episode synopses.
ANSWER: Carmen Maria Machado
[10h] In a story from this collection, the writing workshop organizer Edward mocks a woman’s “implausible” story about her father. In its title story, a girl becomes a waitress in Connecticut and starts dating a rich white boy after fleeing from her abusive visa sponsor uncle.
ANSWER: The Thing Around Your Neck (by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) (The first story is “Jumping Monkey Hill.”)
<TM, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 16.83 | 81% | 63% | 24% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Foster Gromit | Copán Seethe | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Polish Orthographers Posting Their Łs | It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wife | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 2.50 | 25% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |