Question

Rowdy youths bewilder and mock this man by applying the suffix -orama to several words, since they had just heard about the debut of the diorama. (15[1])A younger character spying on this character (-5[1])through a peephole exclaims that this character must be as strong as King Augustus of Poland after seeing him bending metal with his bare hands. This character pawns his only remaining possessions, some silverware and buckles, to pay off a (-5[1])dressmaker, having earlier lost his fortunes when his two (*) daughters’ husbands (10[1])gambled and speculated (10[1])it away. (10[1])This former war profiteer and vermicelli maker (10[1])lives in Madame (10[2])Vauquer’s boarding house (10[1])with the criminal Vautrin (10[1]-5[1])and the social climber Eugene (10[1]-5[1])de Rastignac (10[1])[[“oo-zhen de rast-in-nyack”]]. For 10 points, (10[1])what (-5[1])elderly (10[1])character (10[1])titles the most read novel in Balzac’s (10[1])Human Comedy? (10[3])■END■ (10[6]0[5])

ANSWER: Père Goriot [or Father Goriot; or Old Goriot; or either part of Jean-Joachim Goriot]
<Taylor Harvey, European Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y367%0%0%125.50
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%0%14%108.71
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%54.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y367%0%0%130.50
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y580%0%60%110.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%0%25%115.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y367%0%0%124.00
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y1100%0%0%131.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nathaniel HullBerkeley ABerkeley B2515
Tony ChenToronto WearyLa Clique du Château32-5
Ewan MacAulayScottish, Irish, Both or NeitherBroken Hearts72-5
Andrew ZengStanfordBerkeley C8310
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay AJHU B8610
Omer KeskinBetrayed by Rita IzzatdustFoucault's Penndulum8810
Enoch Yuen3HK1MMOld London Town9510
Eshan PantNYUUMD B9810
Sinecio MoralesJHU APitt9810
Maude-Sophie LockmanLa Clique du ChâteauToronto Weary10110
Raymond WangCornell ARutgers105-5
Caleb KendrickUMD ACornell B10510
Henry AtkinsLibrary of Babel School of Continuing StudiesWaterloo Hatsune11010
Andrew Rout10 Negs that Shook the QuizYes, Moderator110-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AColumbia B11210
Anish KodaliUNC CDuke A11810
Parth JagtapEdinburghTabearnacle119-5
Ben WismathToronto JoyToronto Rofl12010
Eli IssoksonBrandeisTufts12110
Mark GrantBroken HeartsScottish, Irish, Both or Neither12810
Jeffrey FungHarvardBoston College13010
Ryan HumphreyTexas BTexas C13010
Jim FanUNC BUSC A13010
Caleb OttWaterloo MikuMixed-Affiliated Contingency, Off the Team & Absent: Wong, Adrian13110
Sean FarrellNorth FloridaFSU B13110
Jason HongBrownMIT1310
Katherine LeiMITBrown1310
Lexi TermanRutgersCornell A13110
Cade ReinbergerRITSwarthmore13110
Kassidy LongOklahoma BOklahoma A1310
Jisoo YooTexas ARice13110
Oliver WuOklahoma AOklahoma B1310
Sam FooTabearnacleEdinburgh13110
Vincent DuUNC AUSC B1310