Virgin Lands Campaign - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

This program was bolstered by Roswell Garst’s efforts to export seed corn and teach proper farming practices. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this program, in which many people moved to Kazakhstan in order to work as farmers, leading to a strong harvest in 1956 and disappointing harvests otherwise.

ANSWER: Virgin Lands Campaign [or Osvoyeniye tseliny]

[10h] Many of these farms were established as part of the Virgin Lands campaign. In contrast to a similarly named type of collective farm, they were state-owned and paid wages to unionized workers.

ANSWER: sovkhoz [reject “kolkhoz”]

[10e] The Virgin Lands Campaign was initiated by this Soviet leader, who denounced his predecessor Stalin in the “Secret Speech.”

ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev [or Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	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	18.57	100%	86%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


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