Question

To get one of these objects, a man pretends to have been bitten by a snake while picking flowers and later uses that object to help a character escape prison. While speaking to a clown, a character in a play recalls telling a woman to “Count every day one letter of my name” after giving her one of these objects. That woman is remitted from her “debt” of watering two trees after a man shows her friends one of these objects cursed by an (*) “irascible” sage. In (10[1])the prologue of a play, the Stage Director (10[1])introduces one of these objects “of recognition.” One of these objects is lost when the title character of a play crosses a river to meet her husband and is later found in the maw of a fish. For 10 points, in The Recognition of Shakuntala, the title character is cursed to be forgotten by her husband until she shows him what kind of jewelry? ■END■

ANSWER: a signet ring (the play in the first line is Kālidāsa’s Mālavikā and Agnimitra)
<Kevin Wang, World Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eric MukherjeeIll-Advised Buzzbruh8610
Owen RileyTOADKhalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co9410

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl Playtest10/12/2024Y2100%0%0%90.00
2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024N3100%0%0%114.33
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024N2100%0%0%119.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024N4100%0%0%127.50
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024N5100%0%0%114.00
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024N2100%0%50%125.00
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024N3100%0%0%120.67
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024N475%0%50%136.33
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024N8100%13%0%116.88
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024N2100%0%0%130.50