Albertine Simonet - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

In a poem, Anne Carson wrote that this character’s problems are “lying” and “lesbianism” from the narrator’s point of view, and “being imprisoned in the narrator’s house” from her point of view. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this character who the narrator meets at Balbec. Her “disappearance” in a horse racing accident titles a long novel’s sixth volume, which is sometimes translated as The Fugitive.

ANSWER: Albertine Simonet [or Albertine Simonet; accept Albertine disparu]

[10e] A theory holds that this author’s character Albertine is actually male and based on his chauffeur. A tea-soaked madeleine triggers memories in Swann’s Way, the first volume of a novel by this author.

ANSWER: Marcel Proust [or Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust]

[10h] This author, who took her pseudonym from a Proust character, began reading Proust with Albertine disparu. In a novel by this author, a teenaged girl plots against her father’s mistress Anne, who threatened to stop spoiling her.

ANSWER: Françoise Sagan [or Françoise Delphine Quoirez] (The novel is Bonjour Tristesse.)

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	86%	14%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	13.33	89%	11%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


MIT A	Brown	0	10	0	10
Harvard	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	10	0	10
MIT B	Yale	0	10	0	10
Brandeis	RIT	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	CWRU	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Mount Sinai	0	10	0	10
JHU A	John Jay	0	10	0	10
JHU B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Maryland C	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	NYU A	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Central Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Indiana	Illinois	0	10	0	10
UChicago B	Northwestern A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	UChicago A	0	0	0	0
Purdue B	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
New Young Whigs of America	abg academy	0	10	0	10
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	rusty shackleford	0	10	0	10
Ottawa 67s	Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	0	10	0	10
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Guelph perfomative male competition	0	10	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	McGill B	0	10	0	10
McGill Fartlets	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	0	0	0	0
Toronto E	Queen's is monitoring the situation	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Carleton A	10	10	0	20
Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	#OpenToBuzz	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Free Win	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	In Search of Lost Clues	10	10	0	20
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	question mark	0	0	0	0
To buzz is to be perceived	Chimp Brisket	10	10	10	30
1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	Galactic Ombudsmen	0	10	0	10
Knorr Stock Clue	Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	0	10	10	20
Hail to the Sheaf	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	0	10	0	10
Of Mice and Penn	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	0	10	0	10
The Bit and the Penndulum	Coughing Baby	0	10	0	10
Washed Scrubs	Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	0	10	10	20
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Bristold	0	10	0	10
Wise Duke	Planck Sinatra	0	10	0	10
UNC A	UNC B	0	10	0	10
VT B	VT A	0	10	0	10
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	Truman State	0	10	0	10
WashU Bouba	WashU Kiki	0	10	0	10