Joy Harjo - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

A poem by this author opens, “The world begins at a kitchen” where “the gifts of earth are brought and prepared.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author of “Perhaps the World Ends Here” who in another poem described creatures with "bodies of sand” and “skins of ocean water.”

ANSWER: Joy Harjo

[10e] Joy Harjo was a holder of this position from 2019 to 2022. Ada Limon will be succeeded in this Library of Congress appointed position by Arthur Sze (“zee”).

ANSWER: United States poet laureate

[10m] This author described people who are “breaking eggs with care / scraping garbage from the plates” in “Women Whose Lives are Food, Men Whose Lives are Money.” This author created a work of biographical fiction with her novel Blonde.

ANSWER: Joyce Carol Oates

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
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%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	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


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