J. P. M. Prentice discovered a form of these constructs that was visible to the naked eye for several months. That one of these constructs, DQ Herculis, is a prototype for a category of these things called intermediate polars. When these non-white dwarf constructs unusually increase in brightness and quickly go back to their quiescent state, they are called cataclysmic variables. The (*) “overcontact” one of these systems is made when a gaseous envelope is shared. They’re not pulsars, but Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor Jr. won the Nobel Prize for their namesake one of these systems used as a test for general relativity. When these systems are detached, each star is within its own Roche lobe. For 10 points, name these star systems, consisting of two gravitationally-bound stars that are orbiting one another. ■END■
| 2024 Penn Bowl Playtest | 10/12/2024 | N | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 61.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 96.50 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 106.50 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 99.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70.67 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 104.67 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 114.50 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 38% | 102.25 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 68.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John John Groger | WUSTL | Chicago A | 42 | 15 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 60 | 15 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame B | Indiana A | 60 | -5 |
| Anurag Sodhi | MIT | Yale A | 66 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC C | UNC B | 66 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | UNC A | Duke A | 71 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Illinois A | 72 | -5 |
| Isaac Ojutomori | Tufts | BU | 72 | -5 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Houston | 74 | 10 |
| Enoch Yuen | 3HK1MM | Gressenheller A | 74 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Say it | Oxford School for Quizness | 74 | 10 |
| Thomas Glotfelty | Virginia Tech A | RIT A | 75 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford | 76 | 10 |
| Bill Zhao | UF C | UF B | 78 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | JHU A | Princeton | 80 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 84 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota | Northwestern A | 84 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois B | 84 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago B | Northwestern B | 91 | 10 |
| Jacob Evans | Michigan State | Ohio State A | 94 | -5 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | See it | The Crying of Team 49 | 95 | 10 |
| Ben Russel Jones | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | Limp Chriskit | 99 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia | NYU A | 101 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | Sorted | LSE | 101 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard B | Harvard A | 102 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland | NYU B | 102 | -5 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 109 | 10 |
| Zachary Werth | Illinois C | Notre Dame C | 111 | -5 |
| Danny Peelen | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 115 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | UF A | UCF | 115 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Indiana B | 125 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis | Yale B | 125 | 10 |
| David Neiman | Carnegie Mellon | Michigan B | 126 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue | Notre Dame A | 126 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Gressenheller A | 3HK1MM | 126 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 133 | 10 |
| Ben Koberlein | Notre Dame C | Illinois C | 133 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 133 | 10 |
| Gangrade Aditya | BU | Tufts | 133 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang | NYU B | Maryland | 133 | 10 |