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 recalls telling a woman to “Count every day one letter of my name” after giving her one of these (-5[1])objects. That woman is remitted from her “debt” of watering two trees after a man shows her friends one of these objects (15[1])cursed by an (*) “irascible” sage. In the prologue of a play, the Stage Director introduces one of these (10[1])objects “of recognition.” (10[6])One of these objects (-5[1])is (10[1])lost when the (10[1])title (10[1])character (10[1])of a play crosses (10[1])a river (-5[1])to meet her husband and is later found (10[1])in the (10[1])maw of a fish. (10[7])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1])in (10[1])The Recognition of Shakuntala, the title character is (10[1])cursed to be forgotten by her husband until she shows him what kind of jewelry? (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[3])

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

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%0%114.33
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%0%119.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%0%0%127.50
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%0%0%114.00
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%50%125.00
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%0%120.67
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y475%0%50%136.33
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%13%0%116.88
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%130.50

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
John XiangBerkeley BBerkeley A55-5
Coby TranChicago BIllinois A7715
Michal GerasimiukStanfordBerkeley C9510
Ariel FaederPittsburghOhio State A9810
Charles HangWUSTLNotre Dame B9810
Ned TagtmeierChicago AMinnesota9810
William OrrYale AMIT9810
Eshan PantNYU AJHU A9810
Andrei HuiSortedThe Crying of Team 499810
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan AOhio State C102-5
Orion KellerVirginia Tech ARIT A10310
Omer KeskinSay itGressenheller A10610
Ben Russel JonesFour Times I Have Despised My SoulLSE10710
Leo LawUF BUCF10810
Jim FanUNC BUNC C11210
Daniel LianMichigan BCarnegie Mellon114-5
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern AIndiana B12210
Moses KitakuleColumbiaPrinceton12410
Logan MathisSIUENotre Dame A12810
Justin HawkinsIndiana ANorthwestern B12810
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BNotre Dame C12810
James McCurleyHarvard BBrandeis12810
Joy AnHarvard ABU12810
Adam Jones3HK1MMSee it12810
Jacob EgolDuke AUNC A12810
Jisoo YooTexas ATexas B12910
Nicholas NguyenUF CUF A13010
Chris LevesleyLimp ChriskitOxford School for Quizness13110
Dimitri KalafeisTAMUHouston13210
Rishi SwaminathanNYU BMaryland14010
Eve FleisigBerkeley ABerkeley B15510
Jack LengaCarnegie MellonMichigan B15510
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State CMichigan A1560
Raifton BartlingMichigan StateOhio State B15610
Matthew LamOhio State BMichigan State1560
Davis JohnsonPurdueIllinois C15610
Iyanu NafiuYale BTufts1560
Ethan LinnTuftsYale B15610