tarot cards - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Antoine Court de Gébelin likely originated the claim that these objects were created by Egyptian priests to incorporate the wisdom of the Book of Thoth. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name these objects, which Etteilla (“eh-TAY-ah”) developed an alternative kind of in contrast to a type of “Marseille.”

ANSWER: tarot cards [prompt on cards]

[10m] Some of the earliest known tarot cards were commissioned for card games by Filippo Maria Visconti and his son-in-law Francesco, who brought this family to prominence after Visconti’s death.

ANSWER: Sforza [accept Francesco I Sforza]

[10e] A distinguishing feature of tarot decks is cards known by this word, which originated in the German game Karnöffel. In trick-taking games, these cards generally outrank other suits.

ANSWER: trump cards [or trionfi]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	11.67	50%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	14.29	71%	71%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	67%	67%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%

Data


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