Hurricane Mitch - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

This storm caused a partial collapse of the Casita volcano, leading to a lahar or mudslide that killed about 2,500 people. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this deadliest Atlantic hurricane since 1780, which killed over 11,000 people as it impacted Central America.

ANSWER: Hurricane Mitch

[10m] This politician argued that his rival, then-president Arnaldo Alemán, had mismanaged warnings about and recovery from Hurricane Mitch. This Sandinista led Nicaragua’s Junta of National Reconstruction.

ANSWER: Daniel Ortega [or José Daniel Ortega Saavedra]

[10e] This country’s president Carlos Flores Facussé suggested that Mitch had wiped out 50 years of progress. César Castellanos (“cah-stay-YAH-noce”), the mayor of this country’s capital of Tegucigalpa (“tay-goo-chee-GALL-pah”), died in a helicopter crash while inspecting flood damage.

ANSWER: Honduras [or Republic of Honduras; or República de Honduras]

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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	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	83%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	17.14	100%	71%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	16.67	89%	67%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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