Question

In a literary work set during this decade, the narrator gets frustrated as he tries sorting through his uncle Robert's messy papers to check what he's inherited. A novel set during this decade ends with the narrator composing a quatrain that ends “–Yet I alive!” The narrator of that novel set during this decade is named after the initials of the author’s real-life uncle. The cleric John Smith first transcribed a literary work set in this decade, which contains several asides about (*) shipbuilding thanks to its author's promotion in the Royal Navy. The narrator of that literary work set in this decade buries a wheel of Parmesan cheese for safekeeping (10[1])during a disaster that started on Pudding Lane. For 10 points, name this decade chronicled in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year and Samuel Pepys’ [“PEEPS”] most famous diary, which recounts the Great Fire of London. ■END■

ANSWER: the 1660s [prompt on 60s]
<Darren Petrosino, British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathaniel HullBerkeley AStanford10910

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y1100%0%0%109.00