Packet 4: Bonus 10
Stan warns three customers about “NAFTA bullshit” in this play, prompting Tracey to remark that “NAFTA” sounds like a laxative. For 10 points each:
[10m] What play flashes back from a parole office to the year 2000 on the cue of “Smooth” by Santana? This play follows five steel mill workers in Reading, Pennsylvania.
ANSWER: Sweat (by Lynn Nottage)
[10e] At the end of Sweat, the ex-convicts Chris and Jason return to one of these locations, where Stan had railed against “NAFTA bullshit.” One of these businesses is owned by Harry Hope in The Iceman Cometh.
ANSWER: bar [or saloon]
[10h] Sacker-Lowell & Associates stage a takeover of Everson Steel in this author’s 2017 play Junk. Another play by this author opens with a lawyer posing for his wife’s reproduction of the Portrait of Juan de Pareja.
ANSWER: Ayad Akhtar (The unnamed play is Disgraced.)
<EC, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-4
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 19.21 | 100% | 63% | 29% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas I founded the Abbasids | UBC B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | UBC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
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 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 40% | 40% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |