The Sot-Weed Factor - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

A frame narrative in this novel recounts the story of a man who became chief via winning an eating contest and an eggplant aphrodisiac recipe given to him by John Smith. For 10 points each.

[10h] Name this novel centered on a fictional version of Ebenezer Cooke commissioned to write a poem about colonial Maryland.

ANSWER: The Sot-Weed Factor

[10e] John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor was his first book in this literary movement, which he frequently worked in. This literary movement often uses metafiction and unreliable narration.

ANSWER: postmodernism

[10m] The Sot-Weed Factor was a parody of picaresque novels such as Tom Jones and this novel about a character whose obsessions are called “hobby-horses.” That titular character of this novel has a flat nose crushed from birth.

ANSWER: Tristram Shandy [or The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	6.67	0%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	21.67	100%	83%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	1	10.00	0%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	17.14	71%	86%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	18.89	78%	67%	44%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%

Data


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