An epic by an author with this surname served as the source of King Lear’s Gloucester subplot and ended mid-sentence three books into a revision by its author, leading to the proliferation of “Old” and “New” versions. The Wilton circle was led by a poet with this maiden name, whose niece’s patronage of Ben Jonson inspired Jonson’s country house poem “To Penshurst.” The title taken by a poet with this surname after marriage to Henry Herbert names a poem by her brother, the author of The Defence of Poesy and an epic about the duke (*) Basilius and his daughter Philoclea. That poet with this surname observed “with how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies” in the 31st entry of a sonnet sequence about a pair of characters whose names mean “Star” and “Star-lover.” For 10 points, give this surname of the Elizabethan author of Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella, Philip. ■END■
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 138.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 111.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 85.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 33% | 127.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 0% | 0% | 75% | 0.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 151.67 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 151.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 101.33 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 50% | 17% | 50% | 118.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Billy's Bastion | 61 | 15 |
| Isobel Dobbie | Sheffield A | Warwick A | 63 | 15 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Master and Margaritaville | 79 | 15 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Toronto C | 85 | 15 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | Art of Premature Signaling | 88 | -5 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | RIT | 88 | -5 |
| Elle Lee | NYU A | Georgetown | 88 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | UW A | 89 | -5 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | SIUE | 90 | 15 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Truman State | 91 | -5 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 99 | 10 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 99 | -5 |
| Matt Weiner | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 105 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 111 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Chicago A | 111 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Harvard | 113 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Iowa State | 131 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois C | WashU Squirtle | 134 | -5 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Manchester | 137 | -5 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Birmingham | 140 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | CWRU | 143 | -5 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 144 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Imperial A | 146 | -5 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Catholic University of America | 148 | -5 |
| Josh Howarth | Warwick B | Lancaster | 149 | -5 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State University B | Washington Connections | 150 | -5 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 150 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | Arizona State University B | 151 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | girl 15 whale i mean they | 151 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Belmont | 151 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Illinois A | 151 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge | 152 | 10 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 152 | 0 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Sheffield C | 152 | 0 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Edinburgh | 152 | 0 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | Haverford A | 152 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Arizona State University A | 152 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | South Dakota School of Mines | 152 | 0 |
| Eric Anderson | South Dakota School of Mines | Carleton | 152 | 0 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 152 | 0 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | Alberta | 152 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | BU | 152 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Lexington | 152 | 0 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington | Maryland B | 152 | 0 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | George Washington | 152 | 0 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU | Haverford B | 152 | 0 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | NYU A | 152 | 0 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | WashU Charmander | 152 | 10 |