the arrival of the Windrush - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

When describing a period that started with this event, the speaker of a Louise Bennett poem says “wat a joyful news, miss Mattie, / I feel like me heart gwine burs.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this time period. Hannah Lowe’s poetry collections Chick and Ormonde address her father’s experiences in a direct precursor of this event.

ANSWER: the arrival of the Windrush [accept answers involving the HMT Empire Windrush or Windrush generation; prompt on descriptions like Jamaicans moving to the United Kingdom or Trinidadians moving to England]

[10m] Linton Kwesi Johnson, a practitioner of this style of poetry, discussed Windrush-generation experiences in works like “Sonny’s Lettah.” This type of spoken-word poetry has musical backing.

ANSWER: dub poetry

[10e] A Sam Selvon novel follows the life of Windrush-generation characters in this city. Bangladeshi immigrants to this city are the subject of Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane.

ANSWER: London [accept The Lonely Londoners]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	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	13.33	100%	17%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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