Packet 7: Bonus 2
Specific term required. A Wendy Doniger book on this motif chronicles examples ranging from All’s Lost by Lust to a “truly terrible” poem by Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this term for a plot device central to English Renaissance plays like Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West. Mariana replaces Isabella in one of these plot devices from Measure for Measure.
ANSWER: bed trick [accept The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade]
[10h] De Flores murders the substitute in this play’s bed trick under cover of a fire when her mistress worries that daylight will reveal her. In this play’s comic subplot, Antonio enters a madhouse to try to seduce a doctor’s wife.
ANSWER: The Changeling (by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley)
[10e] A bed trick also appears in a Thomas Middleton “tragedy” about Vindice, who seeks this concept. Seneca’s dramas influenced a genre of bloody plays named for this concept, which often featured murdered ghosts.
ANSWER: revenge [accept revenge tragedies or revenge plays; accept vengeance; accept The Revenger’s Tragedy]
<HA, British Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 15.81 | 95% | 54% | 9% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contessa Dora | UNC Charity | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| JHU | Munir Siddiqui Fan Club | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Penn State | Mike and Psmith | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Rosslyn Academic Team | Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞ | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png | Catholic University A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 83% | 17% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |