Question
In a paper discussing gender differences in one play, Carol Cook suggests a link between this word and the double meaning of “marked” in the Friar’s description of “a thousand blushing apparitions” in a climactic church scene. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this word, which puns on an Elizabethan slang word for a vagina in the title of a Shakespeare play.
ANSWER: nothing [accept Much Ado About Nothing]
[10m] This character from Much Ado About Nothing frequently alludes to the play’s theme of anxiety about cuckoldry in his diatribes against marriage, though he eventually marries Beatrice anyhow.
ANSWER: Benedick
[10e] Gender norms and androgyny are also explored by the cross-dressing Viola in this other Shakespeare play, in which she is separated from her twin Sebastian after a shipwreck.
ANSWER: Twelfth Night [or What You Will]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 71% | 57% | 43% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 80% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 50% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 67% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 25.00 | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 28.00 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Cambridge A | Warwick A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial B | LSE A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| LSE B | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bristol | Warwick B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Southampton | Warwick C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |