framing - 2025 Penn Bowl - Buzzpoints App

Question

The platform type of this process builds each floor separately, requiring fewer particularly tall beams. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this process in which materials like wood and steel are fitted to provide the structural foundation of a house. This process can be divided into “heavy” and “light” types depending on the qualities of the supports.

ANSWER: framing [accept platform framing; accept heavy framing; accept light framing]

[10h] Platform framing is often contrasted with this type of framing, which was most popular from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. This type of framing uses wood studs which run the entire height of the house.

ANSWER: balloon framing

[10e] One advantage of platform framing over balloon framing is that it is less vulnerable to these events, one of which in Chicago was legendarily started by Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicking a lantern.

ANSWER: fires [accept Great Chicago Fire; accept house fires]

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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	13.33	100%	33%	0%
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	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	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

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