United States of America - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

A section describing the corpse of a soldier from this country named John Doe concludes the novel Nineteen Nineteen. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this country that titles a trilogy of novels by John Dos Passos.

ANSWER: United States of America [or USA; or America; accept U.S.A. Trilogy; accept “The Body of an American”]

[10m] Stream-of-consciousness sections throughout the trilogy are titled for the “Eye” of these objects. In a Theodore Dreiser novel, Roberta drowns in Big Bittern Lake after being struck by one of these objects.

ANSWER: cameras [accept “The Camera Eye”] (The Dreiser novel is An American Tragedy.)

[10h] Description acceptable. In Camera Eye 50, Dos Passos writes, “all right we are two nations” in response to this event. A poem written in response to this event repeatedly urges, “Let us go home, and sit in the sitting room.”

ANSWER: executions of Sacco and Vanzetti [accept descriptions like the deaths or trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti] (The poem is “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.)

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	21.67	100%	67%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	15.71	71%	57%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	12.22	67%	44%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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