Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

This work quotes extensively from St. Jerome’s letter To Leta, on the Education of her Daughter in a section discussing Arce’s Studioso Bibliorum. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this work, written in response to a bishop who had published a letter by its author using the title pseudonym.

ANSWER: Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz [or Response to Sister Filotea de la Cruz; or Reply to Sister Filotea de la Cruz; or Response to Sor Filotea de la Cruz; or Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz; prompt on La Respuesta]

[10e] The controversy over the “Letter of Athena” and Response to Sister Filotea led this Mexican poet and nun to likely stop writing in 1693.

ANSWER: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [or Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana]

[10m] When asked for two living women poets, a character in this author’s Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! names Sor Juana and Emily Dickinson. This Puerto Rican author also wrote United States of Banana and Empire of Dreams.

ANSWER: Giannina Braschi

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	33%	67%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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