Jāhiliyyah - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Peter Webb argued that the practice of niyāḥa, or excessive weeping, was exaggerated in works written about this period. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this time period, which Sayyid Qutb analogized to Western culture. Its name approximately translates to the “Age of Ignorance.”

ANSWER: Jāhiliyyah

[10m] Although later Islamic culture often took a negative attitude towards the Jähiliyyah, it preserved its respect for this art form. The mu’allaqāt, which consists of this art form, is so named for hanging in the Ka’aba.

ANSWER: poetry [or poems; or odes]

[10e] People during the Jāhiliyyah were later accused of being engaged in this practice, similar to accusations of it against the Carthaginians. High sex ratios among children may provide evidence of this practice.

ANSWER: female infanticide [accept descriptions like killing babies or letting young children die or child sacrifice; prompt on murder; reject “abortion”]

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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%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	18.33	100%	33%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	12.86	86%	29%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	15.56	89%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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