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Question

The author of this collection declares that “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” to open its 75th entry. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this collection of 89 poems written as a portrait of its author’s courtship with Elizabeth Boyle. This collection is often followed by its author’s longer poem Epithalamion.

ANSWER: Amoretti

[10m] The Amoretti are by this poet of The Shepheardes Calendar, as well as an epic poem whose allegory this poet explained as a “darke conceit” in a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh.

ANSWER: Edmund Spenser

[10e] Spenser’s The Faerie Queene was written as an allegory for this monarch. Raleigh was a favorite courtier of this monarch, who names the literary era spanning the latter half of the 16th century.

ANSWER: Elizabeth I [prompt on Elizabethan]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	17.50	88%	75%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%

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Michigan A	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Michigan B	Pittsburgh	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	Ohio State D	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State C	0	0	0	0
Art of Premature Signaling	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
girl 15 whale i mean they	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCSB	10	10	10	30
Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	10	20
Billy's Bastion	Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	0	10	10	20
Too much from you lately	Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	0	10	10	20
Belmont	RIT	0	0	10	10
Brown	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
Lexington	Harvard	0	10	10	20
MIT	BU	0	10	10	20
Caltech	UCSD	0	0	0	0
UCLA B	Claremont A	0	0	10	10
George Washington	George Mason B	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	Haverford A	0	0	10	10
Haverford B	Catholic University of America	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins B	NYU B	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Georgetown	0	10	10	20
George Mason A	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Rutgers	0	0	10	10
Alberta	Washington Connections	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	UW A	0	0	10	10
SD Mines	Carleton	0	0	0	0
UW B	Arizona State University B	0	0	10	10
Egypt Airlines Haters	we need new names	0	10	10	20
Gruh	MSJ	0	0	10	10
Free Agents 1	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Mahjonng Masters	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	mongeese	10	10	10	30
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	10	10	20
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Quatumvirate	0	10	10	20
evil women enjoyers	Goober Gang	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Cambridge	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Lancaster	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Sheffield C	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Sheffield B	0	0	10	10
Sheffield A	Warwick C	0	10	10	20
Mac A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
McGill B	McGill A	0	0	0	0
Toronto C	Ottawa A	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	UBC	10	10	10	30
Waterloo B	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Waterloo C	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Guelph	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	0	10	10	20
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Missouri	WashU Bulbasaur	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	WashU Charmander	0	10	10	20