Carolina bays - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Lake Waccamaw is likely the largest of these geological features, which L.C. Glenn first described. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these roughly oval-shaped depressions found along the East Coast of the United States, including in many of the pocosin (“puh-KOE-sun”) wetlands.

ANSWER: Carolina bays [or Maryland basins; prompt on pocosin bays; prompt on Delmarva bays or Delmarva basins]

[10m] Carolina bays are a common habitat for this type of tree, which often develops “knees” when planted in wet sites. Its “bald” type, part of the Taxodium genus, often grows alongside tupelos in swamps.

ANSWER: cypresses [or Cupressaceae]

[10e] Carolina bays often include this material, which tends to accumulate in bogs. This partially decayed organic material can be burned as a fuel and eventually turns into coal.

ANSWER: peat [accept peat bogs]

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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	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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