The Rover - 2024 ARGOS - Buzzpoints App

Question

In this play, Lucetta tricks Blunt by opening a trapdoor under the bed he’s laying on, allowing her to take his money and clothes. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this play in which two sisters go disguised during Carnival in Naples while the licentious Captain Willmore toys with the courtesan Angellica Bianca.

ANSWER: The Rover [or The Banish’d Cavaliers] (by Aphra Behn)

[10h] Colonel Fainwell pretends to be invisible by hiding under a trapdoor to trick Periwinkle, one of Anne Lovely’s four guardians, in this author’s 1718 play A Bold Stroke for a Wife.

ANSWER: Susanna Centlivre [or Susanna Freeman; or Susanna Carroll]

[10e] A satirical caricature of Thomas Shadwell falls through a trapdoor at the end of Mac Flecknoe, a poem by this first Poet Laureate of England.

ANSWER: John Dryden

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	N	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


BHSU Rebirth	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	0	10	10
Clown Squad	hawk two of	0	10	10
Music to Help You Stop Smoking	BHSU ReFantazio	0	10	10
Northeast by Northwestern	Clown Senpais	0	0	0
That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	Notre Dame	0	10	10
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	WashU	10	10	20
Cambridge	Limp Franceskit	0	10	10
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Simple Vibes	10	10	20
Defying Suavity	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	10	10	20
Cope is the thing with feathers	Walston et. al.	0	10	10
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	12 Litres of Green Tea	10	10	20
just one more half-dot bro	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	0	10	10
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	0	10	10
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	10	10	20
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	0	10	10
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	10	10	20
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	10	10
Cry of the Common Loon	Stanford+	10	10	20
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	10	10	20
Berkeley	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	10	10	20