Question
After this character falls in love with a man’s “clean and fair” “pair of legs and feet” and marries him, she is rewarded with lectures on the treachery of women like Pasiphaë and Clytemnestra. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this character, who tears a page out of a collection of misogynistic texts read incessantly by her fifth husband Jankin. This character tells of a knight who is commanded to discover what “women desire most.”
ANSWER: Wife of Bath [or Alisoun or Alyson]
[10h] Jankin’s reading list includes such antifeminist screeds as this author's “Dissuasion of Valerius.” The first “Distinction” of a book by this author opens by comparing a royal court to the “infernal regions.”
ANSWER: Walter Map (The unnamed book is De nugis curialium.)
[10m] Map begins the “Dissuasion of Valerius” by declaring his hatred for the dismal shrieks of these animals. In a Middle English poem, one of these animals trades insults with a “charming and dainty” opponent.
ANSWER: owl [accept screech-owl; prompt on “The Owl and the Nightingale”]
<Arya Karthik, British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 10 | 15.00 | 100% | 40% | 10% |
Data
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Team Name Think Detail | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | The Canadians | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | BHSU | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| In Search of Things Past | I would prefer not to | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Quasicrystal Silence | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | remembrance of lost time | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |