Nelly Dean - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Because she schemes to maintain her social position, a James Hafley article calls this character the “villain” of the novel in which she appears. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this character, who is called a “witch” who seeks “elf-bolts to hurt us” by her bedridden mistress. This character does not warn her employer about an eavesdropper who, offended by the conversation, leaves for three years.

ANSWER: Nelly Dean [or Nelly Dean; or Ellen Dean]

[10e] Nelly Dean is envious of Catherine Earnshaw’s affection for Heathcliff in this novel.

ANSWER: Wuthering Heights

[10m] Nelly does not tell Catherine that Heathcliff is listening when Catherine says that though she and Heathcliff have similar ones of these things, it would “degrade” her to marry him. An Emily Brontë poem is titled for a “coward” one of these things.

ANSWER: souls [accept “No Coward Soul is Mine”]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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