Ayad Akhtar - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

In this playwright’s play The Who and the What, Zarina publishes a controversial novel about Muhammad while developing a relationship with the convert Eli. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this playwright of Junk and Disgraced, as well as the novel American Dervish.

ANSWER: Ayad Akhtar

[10h] Akhtar studied theater at this director’s namesake Tuscan “Workcenter.” This director of the Laboratory Theater, or Theater of 13 Rows, first focused on “poor theater” before developing the “theater of sources.”

ANSWER: Jerzy Grotowski (“YEH-zhih grah-TOFF-skee”) [or Jerzy Marian Grotowski]

[10e] Akhtar appeared in a Louis Malle film about Grotowski’s associate André Gregory putting on this play “on 42nd Street.” This Chekhov play concerns the title character’s relationship with his niece Sonja.

ANSWER: Uncle Vanya [accept Vanya on 42nd Street]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	15.71	100%	43%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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