Sevastopol - 2024 Penn Bowl

Question

One town was supposedly named after this city after somebody compared a long-running fistfight to the famously long military engagements around this city, which included the Battle of Balaclava. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this city on the site of the former Greek colony of Chersonesus (“kayr-sah-NAY-zooss”).

ANSWER: Sevastopol [accept Sebastopol or Sivastopol; accept Aqyar]

[10e] That town named Sebastopol lies in this state’s Sonoma County, which forms part of its major wine region along with Napa.

ANSWER: California

[10h] The Siege of Sebastopol also inspired an open-D instrumental popularized by this guitarist as “Vastopol.” This guitarist wrote the song “Freight Train” about a train through Chapel Hill’s Northside neighborhood.

ANSWER: Elizabeth Cotten [or Libba Cotten]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
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	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


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