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Packet C: Bonus 12

After an exhumation of a mass grave, the apparent remains of this author were claimed and taken home by a friend who decided the largest skull must be his. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author whose lost skull is the focus of a poem at the end of the Wilhelm Meister novel series. This author included The Piccolomini in a trilogy of plays about a 17th-century military leader.
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller] (The trilogy is Wallenstein. The friend in the lead-in is Goethe.)
[10e] The title character of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister novels portrays this Shakespeare character, who rhapsodizes on the skull of his former jester Yorick.
ANSWER: Hamlet
[10h] After growing bored of Hamlet, Wilhelm’s theater troupe puts on this Gotthold Ephraim Lessing play, a retelling of the myth of Virginia in which the title character is stabbed by her father Odoardo.
ANSWER: Emilia Galotti [or Emilie Galotti]
<HG, European Literature> | Packet-C_Arizona-State_SIUE_UCSD

HeardPPBE %M %H %
5714.21100%37%5%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Cambridge BSouthampton A010010E
Cambridge DWarwick B010010E
Cambridge EWarwick A010010E
DurhamNYU C010010E
Imperial AOxford B1010020ME
ManchesterCambridge A010010E
Oxford ABristol10101030MEH
Oxford CImperial B010010E
SheffieldLSE010010E
Southampton BCambridge C010010E

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Great Lakes2025-02-01✓613.33100%33%0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓610.00100%0%0%
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North2025-02-01✓313.33100%33%0%
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Overflow2025-02-01✓516.00100%60%0%
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UK2025-02-01✓1013.00100%20%10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01✓817.50100%63%13%
Upstate NY2025-02-01✓310.00100%0%0%