Rachel Cusk - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

The narrator of a novel by this author is subjected to the life story of a triply-divorced man who sat next to her on an airplane. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this author. Conversations between a creative writing teacher and the people she meets in Greece are the subject of an autofictional novel by this author, Outline.

ANSWER: Rachel Cusk

[10m] Teresa’s two trips to Greece are recounted in a Booker-nominated Jonathan Buckley novel titled for one of these objects. A Jerome K. Jerome novel titled for one of these objects was initially intended as a travel guide.

ANSWER: boats [accept One Boat or Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)]

[10e] Travel writing influenced this author’s novel about risk analysts and intelligence agents in Greece, The Names. This author also wrote Libra and White Noise.

ANSWER: Don DeLillo [or Donald Richard DeLillo]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	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	18.33	83%	67%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	25.56	89%	100%	67%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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