Milan Kundera - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

In a story by this author, a couple roleplays as hitchhiker and driver in a sexual fantasy that ultimately destroys their relationship. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author. A professor loses his job after refusing to review an art historian’s essay in a story this author collected in Laughable Loves.

ANSWER: Milan Kundera

[10e] Tomáš’s (“toe-MAHSH’s”) political positions cause him to lose his job and become a window cleaner in this Kundera novel.

ANSWER: The Unbearable Lightness of Being [or Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí]

[10m] Automation replaces a Czech paper compactor’s job in a Bohumil Hrabal novella titled for this concept. The “countless daily deaths” in Latin America are evoked in a Nobel Lecture named for this concept.

ANSWER: solitude [accept Too Loud a Solitude or Příliš hlučná samota; accept “The Solitude of Latin America” or “La Soledad de América Latina”]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	100%	33%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Brandeis	Yale	0	10	0	10
Brown	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	0	0	0
Harvard	MIT A	0	10	0	10
MIT B	RIT	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	JHU B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Mount Sinai	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	JHU A	10	10	0	20
John Jay	Swarthmore	0	10	0	10
Oklahoma	Central Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Illinois	UChicago B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	UChicago A	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Indiana	UChicago C	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
McGill Fartlets	#OpenToBuzz	0	10	0	10
Toronto G	Ottawa 67s	0	10	10	20
Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	Queen's is monitoring the situation	0	10	0	10
Toronto E	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	10	0	10
Waterloo you are crooked	Toronto Operation PBSuccess	0	10	10	20
rusty shackleford	New Young Whigs of America	0	10	0	10
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	abg academy	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	In Search of Lost Clues	0	10	10	20
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Free Win	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	Coughing Baby	0	10	0	10
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	10	10	10	30
Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	Galactic Ombudsmen	0	10	0	10
Knorr Stock Clue	To buzz is to be perceived	0	10	10	20
Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	0	10	0	10
Hail to the Sheaf	The Bit and the Penndulum	0	10	0	10
Chimp Brisket	Washed Scrubs	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
Wise Duke	VT B	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU Bouba	0	10	0	10
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	WashU Kiki	0	10	10	20
UNC A	Planck Sinatra	0	10	10	20
VT A	UNC B	0	10	10	20
Bristold	question mark	0	10	0	10