Vestal Virgins - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Answer the following about an object called the vitta (“WIT-tuh”), which was made of wool and worn over the hair together with the infula. For 10 points each:

[10m] These people often wore a white vitta and infula together with the suffibulum. These people, who guarded the Palladium, could be buried alive as a punishment for incestum (“een-KEST-um”).

ANSWER: Vestal Virgins [or Vestals; or vestālēs; or vestālis]

[10e] Because they symbolized chastity, vittae (“WIT-tie”) were worn by young women to these events, after which they became uxores. The god Hymen (“HEE-men”) was invoked during these events.

ANSWER: weddings [or marriages; or mātrimōnium; or mātrimōnia; or nuptiae]

[10h] The vitta may have offered moral protection akin to this pendant worn by girls until the day before their marriage. The male equivalent of this pendant, the bulla, contained a phallus.

ANSWER: lunula [or lunulae]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	21.67	100%	100%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	12.86	57%	71%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	18.89	89%	89%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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