Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Because he knows that Stephen Norton will demand to switch cups, a character in this novel poisons both cups of hot chocolate. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novel. After shooting Norton in a way that makes it appear like suicide, a character in this novel stops taking his medicine, triggering a fatal heart attack.

ANSWER: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case

[10e] This author’s character Hercule Poirot (“AIR-kyool PWAH-ro”) dies in the novel Curtain.

ANSWER: Agatha Christie [or Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie; or Agatha Miller; or Lady Mallowan; or Mary Westmacott]

[10m] Poirot (“PWAH-ro”) suggests that James Sheppard take “an overdose of a sleeping draught” in this novel, whose final chapter is Sheppard’s suicide note. The killer in this novel is revealed to be its unreliable narrator.

ANSWER: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	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	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	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	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	21.11	100%	67%	44%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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