Mieko Kawakami - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

In a set of interviews published as The Owl Spreads Its Wings with the Falling of the Dusk, this author asked another to respond to criticism of his women characters as “forced into an overly sexual role.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author of Heaven. The protagonist of a novel by this Japanese author considers using a sperm donor, but finds that as an unmarried woman, she is ineligible to receive one.

ANSWER: Mieko Kawakami [or Kawakami Mieko] (The novel is Breasts and Eggs.)

[10e] In that interview about this author’s women characters, Kawakami praised the way he represented a woman’s voice in his story “Sleep.” This author wrote Norwegian Wood.

ANSWER: Haruki Murakami [or Murakami Haruki]

[10m] Murakami claimed that of his work, this novel’s protagonist was the female character he had spent most time “engaging with.” That protagonist is magically impregnated after a cult leader’s death in this Murakami novel.

ANSWER: 1Q84

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


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