Luka - 2025 Penn Bowl - Buzzpoints App

Question

This character comforts a sick woman by telling her that when she dies, the “Lord will look at [her] gently and tenderly” and say “‘Take Anna into Paradise.’” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this “old man” who encourages a thief to go to Siberia, a “land of gold” where one can live “like a cucumber in a hot-house.” He tells an anecdote about a man who fails to find the “land of righteousness.”

ANSWER: Luka

[10m] In this play, Satine (“sah-TEEN”) tells the Baron that Luka “lied out of sheer pity for you... He understood man—you don’t!” The thief Vaska kills his landlord Kostilyoff in this play.

ANSWER: The Lower Depths [or Na Dne]

[10e] This Russian author and claimed “founder of socialist realism” was inspired to write The Lower Depths by residents of the Bugrov Homeless Shelter.

ANSWER: Maxim Gorky [or Alexei Maximovich Peshkov]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	6.67	67%	0%	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	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	71%	43%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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