Packet 3: Bonus 17
In a novel’s opening line, this play is said to have been written “in a two-day tempest of composition,” causing its young author to “miss a breakfast and a lunch.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this fictional play, which concerns a woman who falls for a foreign count, then for the doctor who heals her cholera. This play is butchered by its author’s cousins in a performance that ends Chapter One.
ANSWER: The Trials of Arabella [accept descriptions of Briony Tallis’s play or Briony Tallis’s play or the play from Atonement]
[10e] Arabella’s story in The Trials of Arabella parallels Briony Tallis’s story in Atonement, a novel by this British author of Amsterdam and Saturday.
ANSWER: Ian McEwan [or Ian Russell McEwan]
[10m] In the epilogue, the Quincey kids perform the play for an elderly Briony, before the revelation that her sister actually died in one of these events. One of these events ends Maurice and Sarah’s affair in The End of the Affair.
ANSWER: bombing [or rocket blasts; accept Blitzkrieg or the Blitz or the Battle of Britain; prompt on explosions or battles; prompt on flooding with “caused by what type of event?”]
<TM, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-3
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 15.81 | 88% | 58% | 12% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas I founded the Abbasids | The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UBC B | UBC A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 80% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |