Bonus
During this literary period, the first English actress, Margaret Hughes, made her debut on stage. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this literary period that began after the repeal of Puritan prohibitions on theater. Playwrights such as William Wycherley and William Congreve wrote licentious comedies during this period.
ANSWER: English Restoration
[10h] This Restoration playwright authored The Rover, a play about exiled English royalists in Naples. This female playwright also wrote one of the earliest English-language novels, Oroonoko, about a royal slave in Suriname.
ANSWER: Aphra Behn
[10e] Congreve wrote a play titled for this thing’s “Way” about Millimant and Mirabel’s attempts to marry. In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a speech on the Seven Ages of Man opens by declaring “all the [this thing]’s a stage.”
ANSWER: world [accept “all the world’s a stage” or The Way of the World]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 114 | 13.25 | 97% | 18% | 18% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 88% | 25% | 25% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 40% | 40% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 100% | 0% | 11% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 14.17 | 100% | 17% | 25% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 8.89 | 89% | 0% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 33% | 22% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 10 | 11.00 | 100% | 0% | 10% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 14.62 | 92% | 23% | 31% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |