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Question

A playwright from this country who analyzed the growth of feelings in Plays on the Passions was assumed to be male, until it was pointed out her protagonists were middle-aged women. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this country, where an orphan raised by a shepherd declares “my name is Norval.” An outlaw helps Frank Osbaldistone in a novel from this country widely adapted for the stage.

ANSWER: Scotland [prompt on United Kingdom or UK or Great Britain; reject “England”] (Plays on the Passions is by Joanna Baillie. The novel is Rob Roy.)

[10h] Norval appears in Douglas, the play that featured this actress’s final stage appearance. This actress set a candle down during Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene as part of her innovation of that role.

ANSWER: Sarah Siddons [or Sarah Kemble]

[10e] Macbeth is called the “Scottish play” due to these people supposedly placing a curse on it for using real incantations. Three of these people tell Macbeth a prophecy.

ANSWER: witches [accept Three Witches or Weird Sisters]

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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	16.67	100%	50%	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	12.50	100%	0%	25%
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%	14%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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