pipe organs - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Answer the following about Sultan Qaboos of Oman’s fascination with classical music, which he promoted through a 120-member court orchestra in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. For 10 points each:

[10e] The Royal Opera House Muscat, built under Qaboos’s tenure, features the second-largest mobile one of these instruments in the world. These keyboard instruments typically use pipes to produce sounds.

ANSWER: pipe organs

[10h] Qaboos commissioned this composer to write Symphonic Impressions of Oman. This composer, who died in 2025 and arranged songs for the Three Tenors, wrote a set of Jazz Meets the Symphony albums and the Liliʻuokalani Symphony.

ANSWER: Lalo Schifrin

[10m] Shortly before Qaboos’s death, the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra performed at the Young Euro Classic in this city. Simon Rattle conducted an orchestra in this city from 2002 to 2018 following Claudio Abbado.

ANSWER: Berlin [accept Berlin Philharmonic]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	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	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	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	100%	71%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


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