Bancroft family - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

One author from this family analyzed Martin Van Buren’s involvement in politics after losing the 1840 election in his book Martin Van Buren to the End of His Public Career. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this family which includes George, the “Father of American History” who founded the US Naval Academy. Another member of this family names a prize for books studying the history of the US or diplomacy.

ANSWER: Bancroft family [accept George Bancroft or Edgar Addison Bancroft or Frederic Bancroft; accept Bancroft Prize]

[10h] This George Bancroft book, published in 10 volumes, starts with the Icelandic voyages and extends to the 1780s. This large work drew on his themes of providence, progress, patria, and pan-democracy.

ANSWER: History of the United States, From the Discovery of the American Continent

[10e] In 1882, Bancroft published a book on the formation of this document. Eric Foner's The Second Founding is subtitled for how Reconstruction “Remade” this 1787 document.

ANSWER: United States Constitution [accept equivalents such as the Constitution of the US; accept The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	18.33	100%	50%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	10.00	78%	11%	11%
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


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