Robert Peary - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Answer the following about the disastrous Crocker Land Expedition, a 1913 journey to a non-existent island that took four years to rescue all members. For 10 points each:

[10m] The Crocker Land expedition was led by this explorer, who clashed with Frederick Cook over claiming to be the first to reach the North Pole. He also reached Cape Morris Jesup in northern Greenland.

ANSWER: Robert Peary [or Robert Edwin Peary Sr.]

[10e] This museum was the largest funder of the exhibition, as well as the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. This New York City museum was devised by Albert Bickmore and includes taxidermied elephants and a cast of Peking Man.

ANSWER: American Museum of Natural History [or AMNH]

[10h] The Crocker Land Exhibition launched from this location. The USS Monitor was built by the Continental Iron Works at this location, which also built Robert Fulton's Demologos warship.

ANSWER: Brooklyn Navy Yard [or New York Navy Yard; or Brooklyn Naval Shipyard; prompt on Brooklyn or Navy Yard or Naval Shipyard]

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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	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	50%	50%	0%
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	15.00	100%	0%	50%

Data


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