Grub Street - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

A prominent businessman in this place turned to publishing erotic fiction later in life, such as his series Merryland, which analogized women’s bodies to especially curvy topography. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this erstwhile street in London, a hub for hack publishers like Edmund Curll who peddled fabricated news, plagiarized novels, and other bad writing in the 17th and 18th centuries.

ANSWER: Grub Street

[10m] Curll was depicted as a key contestant in a literal pissing contest and other “heroic games” overseen by the goddess Dulness in this mock epic, which also mocks Lewis Theobald and other denizens of Grub Street.

ANSWER: The Dunciad (by Alexander Pope)

[10e] Curll also had a habit of producing unauthorized companion pieces to popular novels, such as his incredibly inaccurate and advertisement-filled “key” to this author’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.

ANSWER: Jonathan Swift

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%

Data


Brandeis B	Boston College A	0	10	10	20
MIT	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Brandeis A	Tufts A	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Squidward Community College	10	10	10	30
Truman	WashU	0	0	10	10
Yale	Amherst	0	10	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	0	10	10	20
The cult of SGA	Madmen and Specialists	0	10	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
bingy academy	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	10	10	20
Penn State	Maryland	0	0	10	10
RIT	Pitt	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin A	Tufts B	0	0	10	10
Florida Tech	UCF B	0	0	10	10
UF B	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF A	UF C	0	10	10	20
Valencia	USF	0	0	10	10
Berkeley Past	Stanford	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan A	Carleton A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Basic	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Aspidistra	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	10	10	30
Waterloo Cloze	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	0	0	10	10
Innovation Academy B	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Lambert	Innovation Academy A	0	0	10	10
Milton	Mississippi State	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Illinois Blue	Notre Dame	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	SIUE	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
LSE A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Southampton	LSE B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
ALCU	Jason et al.	0	10	10	20
SGV Ventures	Claremont	10	0	10	20
Anderson et al.	U[C]SD	10	10	10	30