Samara Joy - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

In 2024, this singer won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance for her cover of the Betty Carter song “Tight.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this five-time Grammy winner and jazz singer behind the album Linger Awhile. She gained fame after winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.

ANSWER: Samara Joy [or Samara Joy McLendon]

[10e] After the title track on Linger Awhile, Joy covered this jazz pianist’s standard “Round Midnight.” This musician also composed “Straight, No Chaser.”

ANSWER: Thelonious Monk [or Thelonious Sphere Monk]

[10m] Joy collaborated with a drummer with this surname and first name Kenny on her Grammy-winning album A Joyful Holiday. A saxophonist with this surname released the 2015 album The Epic and the 2018 album Heaven and Earth.

ANSWER: Washington [accept Kenny Washington or Kamasi Washington]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	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	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	8.57	71%	14%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	13.33	89%	33%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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