O’Brien - 2025 NAFTA at Toronto

Packet 9: Bonus 9

A memoir claims that a publisher with this surname was a serial liar who attacked his own company under the name “Professor Patrice Rousel” to drum up publicity. For 10 points each:

[10m] The founder of the Dalkey Archive Press and the author of The Dalkey Archive both used what surname? Another novel by that author who wrote under this surname features footnotes about the mad scientist De Selby.

ANSWER: O’Brien [accept Flann O’Brien or John O’Brien; accept Brian O’Nolan] (The unnamed novel is The Third Policeman.)

[10h] This William Gaddis superfan described his fractious time with John O’Brien in the memoir Dalkey Days. This critic surveyed works like A True Story and Blanquerna in the idiosyncratic The Novel: An Alternative History.

ANSWER: Steven Moore

[10e] When he discovered Gaddis, Moore abandoned his early project to create a multivolume glossary for this novel. Joseph Campbell wrote a “skeleton key” to this James Joyce novel, which begins with the word “riverrun.”

ANSWER: Finnegans Wake

<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-9

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
42	15.95	98%	57%	5%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 3	Total	Parts
Guelph Cloze	Licence to Bill	10	10	E
Licence to C. Wright Mill	I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get fined	10	10	E
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.	I fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times	10	10	E
William of Baskerville attempts to investigate John P. Robarts, gets turned away for not having a student card	Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. Pennywise	10	10	E
You Don't Have the Cards	The lion does not concern itself with negging teammates out of their own categories	10	10	E

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	✓	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 NAFTA Online	02/14/2026	✓	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt	02/14/2026	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto	09/13/2025	✓	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland	09/27/2025	✓	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard	10/04/2025	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford	10/11/2025	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago	11/08/2025	✓	6	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia	11/08/2025	✓	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond	12/20/2025	✓	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%