oppressed - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Audience members were invited onto stage to act out interventions in forum theater, a dramatic technique used by a movement titled for people with this characteristic. For 10 points each:

[10m] Identify this characteristic which names a set of theatrical forms developed by Augusto Boal.

ANSWER: oppressed [or oprimido; accept word forms like oppression; accept Theater of the Oppressed or Teatro del Oprimido]

[10e] Augusto Boal developed the Theater of the Oppressed based on his experience growing up in this country, also home to Machado de Assis.

ANSWER: Brazil [or Brasil; or Federative Republic of Brazil; or República Federativa do Brasil]

[10h] Boal coined this term, which describes the dual role audience members play when they interrupt forum theater performances to portray characters resisting oppression.

ANSWER: spect-actors [or espect-actores; reject “spectators”]

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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	10.00	67%	17%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	17.14	86%	57%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	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	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%

Data


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