Packet 9: Bonus 17
This character’s continuing adventures make up the lost Telegony, in which his son unknowingly stabs him with a spear tipped with the barb of a stingray. For 10 points each:
[10e] Dante is one of many poets to invent an ocean-based death for what one-time prisoner of Circe?
ANSWER: Odysseus [or Ulysses]
[10h] The Telegony contradicts the Odyssey’s prophecy that Odysseus will achieve a peaceful death by doing this action. Tiresias directs Odysseus to return home, do this action, and make a sacrifice on the spot to Poseidon.
ANSWER: carry an oar inland [accept descriptions of walking with an oar until no one recognizes what it is; accept descriptions of sticking an oar in the ground]
[10m] The stingray barb story survives in the Biblioteca, a compendium once attributed to Apollodorus of Athens; Apollodorus did write a commentary on this Homeric passage that names the “the leaders and lords of the Danaans.”
ANSWER: “Catalogue of Ships” [or “Neōn Katálogos”; prompt on Book 2 of the Iliad; prompt on descriptions of the list of Achaean captains, the list of Argives, the enumeration of Greek forces, or the passage about Greek ships; reject “Catalogue of Trojans”]
<HA, European Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-9
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 21.05 | 100% | 87% | 24% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley A | Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr. | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford B | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
| Team 7 | Not Old! (Old) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Team 8 | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EHM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |