English Restoration - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

During this literary period, the first English actress, Margaret Hughes, made her debut on stage. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this literary period that began after the repeal of Puritan prohibitions on theater. Playwrights such as William Wycherley and William Congreve wrote licentious comedies during this period.

ANSWER: English Restoration

[10h] This Restoration playwright authored The Rover, a play about exiled English royalists in Naples. This female playwright also wrote one of the earliest English-language novels, Oroonoko, about a royal slave in Suriname.

ANSWER: Aphra Behn

[10e] Congreve wrote a play titled for this thing’s “Way” about Millimant and Mirabel’s attempts to marry. In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a speech on the Seven Ages of Man opens by declaring “all the [this thing]’s a stage.”

ANSWER: world [accept “all the world’s a stage” or The Way of the World]

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	11.11	100%	0%	11%
Florida	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	17%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	8.89	89%	0%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	33%	22%
North	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	10	11.00	100%	0%	10%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	20.00	100%	50%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	7	12.86	100%	0%	29%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	14.62	92%	23%	31%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	13.75	88%	25%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Stanford B	Berkeley Archer Queen	0	0	10	10
Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Mighty Miner	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Berkeley Little Prince	0	0	10	10
Claremont A	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UCSD A	UC Santa Barbara	0	0	10	10
USC A	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCLA D	10	0	10	20
UCLA C	UCSD B	10	0	10	20
USC B	UCLA E	0	0	10	10
UCLA F	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
Carleton A	Carleton B	10	10	10	30
McGill B	McGill A	10	10	10	30
Ottawa B	McGill C	0	0	10	10
McGill E	Ottawa C	0	0	10	10
Ottawa A	Ottawa D	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Toronto E	0	0	10	10
Toronto I	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Queen's A	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	McMaster A	0	0	10	10
Guelph A	Toronto G	0	0	10	10
Brock A	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	Waterloo A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Waterloo C	0	0	10	10
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	10	10
ERAU Daytona A	Florida Tech B	0	0	10	10
Florida State A	South Florida A	0	0	10	10
Florida Tech A	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UCSC	Berkeley Skeleton King	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	CWRU D	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Louisville D	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan State A	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Michigan State B	Ohio State A	10	0	10	20
CWRU C	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Ohio State D	Louisville C	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan D	10	10	10	30
Michigan State C	WVU A	0	0	10	10
Michigan State D	WVU B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Duke A	0	0	10	10
JMU B	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
Liberty C	NCSU B	0	0	0	0
NCSU A	UNC A	0	0	10	10
UNC C	Virginia Tech C	0	0	10	10
VCU A	UNC B	0	0	10	10
William & Mary A	Virginia A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
William & Mary C	William & Mary B	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Maryland C	Rutgers A	0	0	10	10
Iowa A	Chicago A	0	0	10	10
Illinois Urbana	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Illinois Blue	Illinois Champaign	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois Canada	0	10	10	20
Macalester	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Michigan Tech	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
Wisconsin A	St. Thomas	0	0	10	10
Minnesota	Wisconsin C	0	0	10	10
Amherst B	Tufts C	0	0	10	10
Boston College A	MIT A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Bach	Boston University A	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Amherst A	0	0	10	10
Brown B	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
Vermont B	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Harvard	Williams C	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Beethoven	MIT B	0	0	10	10
UConn A	Tufts B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Mozart	Williams B	0	0	10	10
Purdue C	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Iowa B	10	10	10	30
Rose-Hulman A	William Woods University A	0	0	10	10
WashU Grizzlers	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Purdue D	WashU Grolars	0	0	10	10
Alberta A	Washington Steelhead	10	10	10	30
Washington State	Arizona State A	0	0	10	10
Arizona State B	Washington Coho	0	0	10	10
Boise State	Washington Masu	0	0	10	10
Texas	British Columbia A	10	0	10	20
British Columbia B	Washington Atlantic	0	10	10	20
British Columbia C	Washington Chum	10	10	10	30
Washington Pink	Washington Sockeye	10	10	10	30
Central Oklahoma B	Kansas State A	0	0	10	10
Rose State	Kansas State B	0	0	10	10
Murray State College B	Nebraska C	0	0	10	10
Nebraska B	Central Oklahoma A	0	0	10	10
Oklahoma	Murray State College A	0	10	10	20
Tulsa A	Nebraska A	0	10	10	20
Tulsa B	Harding	0	0	10	10
Auburn B	Auburn A	0	0	10	10
Mississippi State A	Auburn C	10	10	10	30
Chipola College	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Clemson B	Clemson C	0	0	0	0
Georgia A	Tennessee Tech	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech F	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Clemson A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Montevallo	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech E	Emory A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	South Carolina A	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Tennessee B	Sewanne	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Vanderbilt C	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Edinburgh A	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh C	Durham C	10	0	10	20
Durham D	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Durham B	Sheffield A	0	0	10	10
York	Edinburgh D	0	0	10	10
Southampton	Birmingham	10	10	10	30
Bristol	Cambridge D	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Warwick	0	10	10	20
LSE	Imperial C	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	Imperial D	10	0	10	20
Oxford	Cambridge A	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	Binghamton C	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	ESF	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	RIT A	0	0	10	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10