The God of Small Things - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

After watching a kathakali performance towards the end of this novel, its two main characters make love as an act of “hideous grief.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this novel by the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy. It follows the “two-egg twins” Estha and Rahel.

ANSWER: The God of Small Things

[10m] Rahel looks at a closed business of this type in the first chapter of The God of Small Things. One of these businesses named after Catherine of Braganza appears in Midnight’s Children.

ANSWER: pickle factories [or pickle shops; accept Paradise Pickles & Preserves; accept the Braganza Pickle Factory; prompt on shops or factories by asking “for what product?”]

[10h] When stirring banana jam after being molested by the Orangedrink Lemondrink Man, Estha has “Two Thoughts” which undergird his actions throughout the rest of childhood. Name either phrase.

ANSWER: “Anything Can Happen To Anyone” OR “It’s Best To Be Prepared” [reject partial answers]

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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	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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