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 |