Ulysses - 2025 Penn Bowl - Buzzpoints App

Question

In an Edwin Thumboo poem, this character is puzzled by a “powerful creature of land and sea” that is “half-beast, half-fish.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this character, who hears his lover’s name “in every gull's outcry” in a poem ending “The classics can console. But not enough.”

ANSWER: Ulysses [or Odysseus; accept “Ulysses by the Merlion”] (The second poem is “Sea Grapes” by Derek Walcott.)

[10e] Edwin Thumboo’s “Ulysses by the Merlion” is set in this country, which is also the setting of Kevin Kwan’s novel Crazy Rich Asians.

ANSWER: Singapore [or Republic of Singapore]

[10h] Singaporean Malay poets often use this poetic form, whose two parts appear unrelated. This form’s berkait (“bare-KAH-eet”) type, in which two lines of each stanza are repeated in the next, was used in “My Brother At 3 AM” by Natalie Diaz.

ANSWER: pantun [or pantun berkait; or pantoum]

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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	2	15.00	100%	50%	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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


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