the Anarchy - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Adulterine castles, so named because they were believed to have been built without royal permission, were most commonly erected in this time period. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this time period, which began after the White Ship sank. During this time period, Stephen of Blois and Empress Matilda’s disputes over the thrones of England and Normandy resulted in widespread chaos.

ANSWER: the Anarchy

[10m] Many of the adulterine castles were built according to this common castle design pattern, which features both a keep on raised ground as well as a ditch and palisade enclosing a courtyard.

ANSWER: motte-and-bailey castle

[10h] After the Anarchy, there is improved historical evidence that many castle builders were issued these documents, whose later name classifies them as royal permissions to erect fortifications.

ANSWER: license to crenellate [or licenses to crenellate; prompt on license to fortify or licenses to fortify]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	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	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	22.22	100%	100%	22%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Harvard	MIT A	10	10	0	20
Brown	Brandeis	10	10	0	20
I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	Yale	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	CWRU	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Mount Sinai	10	10	0	20
NYU B	John Jay	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore	Columbia A	10	10	0	20
RIT	MIT B	0	0	0	0
Oklahoma	Central Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	JHU B	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	JHU A	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Illinois	10	0	0	10
Indiana	UChicago A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Northwestern B	0	10	0	10
Purdue A	UChicago C	10	0	0	10
rusty shackleford	New Young Whigs of America	10	10	0	20
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	abg academy	10	10	0	20
Carleton A	Guelph perfomative male competition	10	0	0	10
Ottawa 67s	McGill Fartlets	10	10	0	20
Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	Toronto Operation PBSuccess	10	10	0	20
Waterloo you are crooked	Queen's is monitoring the situation	10	10	0	20
Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	#OpenToBuzz	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	0	20
In Search of Lost Clues	Free Win	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	10	10	0	20
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	Hail to the Sheaf	10	10	10	30
Knorr Stock Clue	Of Mice and Penn	10	10	0	20
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	question mark	10	10	0	20
Galactic Ombudsmen	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	10	10	0	20
Chimp Brisket	The Bit and the Penndulum	10	10	0	20
Washed Scrubs	Coughing Baby	10	10	10	30
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	0	0	10
Wise Duke	VT A	10	10	0	20
UNC A	VT B	10	10	0	20
WashU Bouba	Truman State	10	0	0	10
WashU Kiki	VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	10	10	0	20