Bonus
Though predecessors in other languages included La secchia rapita (“la SECK-yah ra-PEE-ta”) by Alessandro Tassoni, the first work of this type in English is usually said to be Samuel Butler’s Hudibras. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of long poem that satirizes a trivial subject using elevated diction and epithets. English examples of poems in this two-word style include John Gay’s Trivia and The Dunciad.
ANSWER: mock-epic [or mock-heroic; accept heroi-comic]
[10e] This mock-epic opens by describing a “dire offence [which] from am’rous causes springs.” Sylphs led by Ariel fail to prevent the removal of Belinda’s hair in this poem by Alexander Pope.
ANSWER: The Rape of the Lock
[10h] This mock-epic by a different author begins with the title character, “pond’ring which of all his sons was fit / To reign, and wage immortal war with wit,” soon settling on a man who is “mature in dullness” and “stands confirm’d in full stupidity.”
ANSWER: Mac Flecknoe (by John Dryden)
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 | 18.28 | 91% | 67% | 24% |
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| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 25.00 | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 16.00 | 90% | 60% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 75% | 13% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |