My Pafology - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

This novel opens with a dream sequence in which Van Go Jenkins stabs Mama to death after she calls him and his sister “human slough (“sluff”).” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this novel written under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh (“lee”). This novel draws from elements of Sapphire’s Push to satirize Juanita Mae Jenkins’s We’s Lives in Da Ghetto.

ANSWER: My Pafology [or Fuck; prompt on the novel-within-a-novel in Erasure]

[10m] Thelonious “Monk” Ellison receives unexpected acclaim for My Pafology in this author’s novel Erasure. A Daniel Decatur Emmett songbook frames this author’s 2024 reimagining of an 1885 novel.

ANSWER: Percival Everett [or Percival Leonard Everett II]

[10e] Everett won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for his novel James, which retells the events of this Mark Twain novel from the perspective of Miss Watson’s slave, Jim.

ANSWER: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [or Huck Finn]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	16.67	89%	44%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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