Preslav - 2025 Penn Bowl - Buzzpoints App

Question

At a council in this city, Boris I returned from the monastery he had abdicated to in order to depose his pagan son Vladimir-Rasate. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this city. The capital of the First Bulgarian Empire was moved from Pliska to this city so that Simeon I would be more influenced by Christians than pagans.

ANSWER: Preslav [accept Veliki Preslav or Great Preslav]

[10e] Scribes at the Preslav Literary School developed this script, which incorporated letters from the earlier Glagolitic alphabet.

ANSWER: Cyrillic [or kirillíčeskij; or kirilica]

[10m] Preslav was occupied by Sviatoslav I, who held this title, during his conquest of the Khazars and the Bulgars. Oleg the Wise is described as the first holder of this title in the Primary Chronicle.

ANSWER: Grand Prince of Kiev [prompt on grand prince by asking “of what city?”; prompt on answers indicating a ruler of Kiev; reject other specific titles like “king”]

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	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	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
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	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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