universities - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

An Elizabethan-era tradition of dramatic performances at these places produced the first English tragedy, the Seneca-imitating play Gorboduc. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these venues where comedies like Gammer Gurton’s Needle were staged before James Burbage built the first English playhouse. Robert Greene and Thomas Lodge belonged to a group of playwrights known as these places’ “wits.”

ANSWER: universities [or colleges; accept University Wits; prompt on schools or educational institutions]

[10e] This University Wit found greater success on the professional London stage with his so-called “mighty line” of blank verse, which this author employed in plays like Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus.

ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe [or Kit Marlowe]

[10h] The most enduring University comedy was this circa 1553 play by Nicholas Udall, in which Dame Christian Custance is pestered by the boastful title character while betrothed to the straightlaced Gavin Goodluck.

ANSWER: Ralph Roister Doister

<TH, British Literature>

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	83%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
Florida State A	UCF C	0	0	0	0
Illinois C	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Indiana B	Chicago C	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Case Western A	0	10	0	10
Case Western B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
UNC B	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	South Carolina	0	10	0	10
UNC C	William & Mary	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	UNC D	10	10	0	20
Virginia A	Duke	0	10	0	10
Wake Forest	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Missoui S&T	0	10	0	10
Winona State	Wisconsin A	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	0	0	0
UBC	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UW B	UW A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	TAMU	0	10	0	10
Cornell B	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Haverford A	George Washington B	0	10	0	10
John Jay College	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Penn A	0	10	0	10
George Washington A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Claremont B	UCSD	0	0	0	0
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Florida B	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Indiana A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Minnesota B	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
BU	Brown A	0	0	0	0
Dartmouth A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis B	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
Texas A	ASU	0	10	0	10
ESF A	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10