Packet 1: Bonus 12
In a short story titled for this action, the title character arrives just in time to prevent his friend Selinuntius’ execution by the tyrant Dionysius. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this title action that Melos is told to perform in that story. A Haruki Murakami memoir about this action is titled in reference to a Raymond Carver story.
ANSWER: running [accept “Run, Melos!” or “Hashire Merosu!”; accept What I Talk About When I Talk About Running or Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto]
[10m] This author of “Run, Melos!” wrote about the aristocratic siblings Naoji and Kazuko in The Setting Sun. This author’s best known novel follows Oba, whose failed attempt at double suicide by drowning mirrors his own life.
ANSWER: Osamu Dazai [or Shuji Tsushima] (The novel is No Longer Human.)
[10h] Ryu Murakami’s collection Run! Takahashi focuses on a character with this profession. Haruki Murakami admired the “deeply thoughtful” and “cerebral” butt of a person with this profession named Shane.
ANSWER: baseball player [accept outfielder or shortstop; prompt on professional athlete] (The Haruki Murakami poem is “Outfielders’ Butts” from the story “Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection.”)
<TC, World Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-1
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 17.07 | 90% | 56% | 24% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Not Old! (Old) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Berkeley B | Team 7 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | Stanford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | Team 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 25.00 | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |