Question
A 2021 essay by critic Parul Sehgal made "The Case Against" now-ubiquitous plots focused on this condition. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this condition. A 2014 best-seller by Bessel van der Kolk about "Brain, Mind, and Body" helped popularize this condition and treatments for it such as EMDR.
ANSWER: trauma [accept PTSD or trauma plot or psychological trauma or Post-traumatic stress disorder] (The book is The Body Keeps the Score.)
[10e] Sehgal's essay opens with an anecdote about this author encountering a weeping woman on a train. This author wrote To The Lighthouse.
ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Woolf]
[10m] Jamie Hood's Trauma Plot: A Life examines Ovid's story of Tereus and Philomela, who are both turned into these creatures. The phrase "halcyon days" derives from Alcyone's transformation into one of these creatures.
ANSWER: birds [accept kingfishers or nightingale or hoopoe]
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 41 | 14.15 | 95% | 37% | 10% |