the Ice Age - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Andrea (“ahn-DRAY-uh”) Matranga’s paper “The Ant and the Grasshopper” hypothesizes that increased seasonality due to the end of this period led to the development of agriculture. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this period. At the end of this period, rising sea levels took away the Bering land bridge that humans had used to migrate to the Americas.

ANSWER: the Ice Age [accept last glacial period or last glacial cycle or LGP or LGC; accept the last Ice Age; prompt on Late Pleistocene; reject “Little Ice Age”]

[10h] According to Matranga’s theory, increased seasonality in the Ice Age made humans use farming to engage in this economic behavior. Somebody engaged in this behavior typically saves little as a young adult, but more in middle age.

ANSWER: consumption smoothing

[10m] Matranga’s theory of farming as consumption smoothing partially rebuts a theory that hunter-gatherers were the original one of these constructs, as proposed by Marshall Sahlins to reference a book by John Kenneth Galbraith.

ANSWER: affluent society [accept “the original affluent society”]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	16.67	83%	83%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	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	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	14.44	89%	56%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%

Data


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