chain mail - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

Aventails were pieces of armor made from this material to cover a knight’s neck when wearing a helmet. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this material used to make armor, which is composed of small interlocking metal rings.

ANSWER: chain mail [accept ringmail]

[10h] Chain mail was often fashioned into this suit of armor worn over a shirt called a gambeson. The Bayeux Tapestry features both Anglo-Saxon and Norman soldiers wearing this suit of armor.

ANSWER: hauberk [or byrnie]

[10m] To counter mail armor, this weapon’s broadhead variety was gradually replaced by its bodkin variant. Historians debate over whether the Bayeux Tapestry shows Harold Godwinson being felled by this weapon.

ANSWER: arrowhead [prompt on bow and arrow; do not accept “bow” alone]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%

Data


Carnegie Mellon	Ohio State C	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	10	0	10	20
Michigan State	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	WUSTL	10	0	10	20
Illinois C	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Indiana A	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Purdue	10	0	10	20
Minnesota	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Notre Dame A	10	0	10	20
Chicago B	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
SIUE	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
UCF	UF A	10	0	0	10
UF C	UF B	10	0	10	20
BU	Brandeis	10	0	0	10
Harvard B	Harvard A	10	0	0	10
Tufts	MIT	10	0	10	20
Yale B	Yale A	10	0	0	10
Columbia	JHU B	10	0	10	20
JHU A	Maryland	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Princeton	10	10	0	20
Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas	Ill-Advised Buzz	10	0	10	20
We jopping	Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co	10	10	10	30
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors	TOAD	10	0	0	10
Oh you like geography? Name every Forrest.	bruh	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Houston	10	0	10	20
Texas B	TAMU	10	0	10	20
Say it	3HK1MM	10	10	10	30
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul	The Crying of Team 49	10	10	10	30
Gressenheller A	LSE	10	0	10	20
Oxford School for Quizness	See it	10	0	10	20
Limp Chriskit	Sorted	10	0	10	20
UNC B	Duke A	10	10	10	30
UNC A	RIT A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC C	10	0	0	10