Packet 10: Bonus 17

Some historians argue that Thomas Nashe left one of these places due to his role in the play Terminus et Non Terminus. For 10 points each:
[10m] Nashe and Robert Greene were both part of an informal set of “Wits” named for what places, who were active in the Elizabethan theatrical scene?
ANSWER: universities [or university or colleges; accept University Wits or University of Cambridge or St. John’s College, Cambridge]
[10e] This University Wit was granted his Cambridge degree after the Privy Council intervened, prompting suggestions that he was a government spy. This author wrote Tamburlaine before dying in a tavern brawl.
ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe [or Kit Marlowe]
[10h] Two graduates try to start various careers in a trilogy of academic dramas named for this place, which were performed at Cambridge around 1600; the plays are titled for a “pilgrimage to” and “return from” this place.
ANSWER: Parnassus [accept Parnassus plays or Parnassus trilogy or The Pilgrimage to Parnassus or The Return from Parnassus (Part I) or The Return from Parnassus (Part II) or The Return from Parnassus: or the Scourge of Simony or The Second Parte of the Returne from Parnassus]
<Editors, British Literature> | S. Playoffs 10 (Editors 10)

HeardPPBE %M %H %
1816.1194%61%6%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago ANorthwestern A1010020ME
Chicago BUCF0000
MichiganGeorgia Tech A1010020ME
NYU AHarvard010010E
Ohio StateJohns Hopkins010010E
Penn StateVirginia10101030MEH
PittsburghMinnesota010010E
RutgersBruin1010020ME
Stanford AColumbia A1010020ME
SwarthmoreBrown010010E
TexasIllinois A1010020ME
Toronto AMaryland A1010020ME
Toronto BBritish Columbia1010020ME
UC Berkeley AVirginia Tech1010020ME
UC Berkeley BIndiana010010E
UCLACambridge1010020ME
WashUGeorgia Tech C1010020ME
WaterlooNorthwestern B010010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓1816.1194%61%6%