entrenching tools - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

One of these items called the Model 1910 was an early American example, showing their evolution from shovels. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these pieces of military equipment, which include the MPL-50. Despite their principal function of digging, they were sometimes used as combat weapons with sharpened edges.

ANSWER: entrenching tools [or e-tools; or entrenchment tools; accept entrenching shovels or entrenching spades or entrenchment shovels or entrenchment spades; accept intrenching in place of “entrenching”; prompt on spades or trowels or shovels]

[10e] Later British entrenching tools could often be combined with these weapons. During World War I, the “knife” design of these firearm attachments became more popular compared with their “sword” design.

ANSWER: bayonets

[10m] Germany’s World War I version of an entrenching tool, called a Feldspaten, was similar to the MPL-50. Feldspatens were manufactured by this Austrian weapons manufacturer known for their easy-to-use handguns.

ANSWER: Glock GmbH

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	100%	0%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	100%	22%	22%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%

Data


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