Flores - 2025 Penn Bowl - Buzzpoints App

Question

This island’s Mata Menge archaeological site shows that a population on it that resembles Homo luzonensis existed approximately 700,000 years ago. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this island where fossils of an archaic human species were discovered at Liang Bua (“LEE-ang BOO-ah”) caves and named “Hobbit” for its small size.

ANSWER: Flores [or Nusa Nipa; accept Homo floresiensis or Flores Man]

[10e] Homo floresiensis may have descended from members of this hominid species who underwent island dwarfism. Java Man is an example of this descendant of Homo habilis, the first human species to leave Africa.

ANSWER: Homo erectus erectus

[10h] The Liang Bua caves provide partial evidence that Homo floresiensis hunted members of this extinct genus related to elephants. These widespread animals with long tusks also experienced island dwarfism on Flores.

ANSWER: Stegodon

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
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	75%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	12.86	71%	57%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	13.33	78%	56%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


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