gold prospector - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

In Rose Tremain’s novel The Colour, Joseph Blackstone abandons his farm and family to take up this job. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this job. In another novel, a character who wants to take up this job believes he has seen the ghost of Emery Staines while sailing on the Godspeed.

ANSWER: gold prospector [or gold miner; or gold digger]

[10m] Walter Moody travels to Hokitika aboard the Godspeed in this Eleanor Catton novel structured around the zodiac.

ANSWER: The Luminaries

[10e] The Colour and The Luminaries are both set amidst this country’s gold rush. The author of “The Garden Party,” Katherine Mansfield, was from this country.

ANSWER: New Zealand [or Aotearoa]

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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%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	67%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	21.43	100%	71%	43%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


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