What Is to Be Done? - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

Vera Pavlovna's dreams in this novel lead her to reject monogamous norms and enter a fourway relationship with her lovers. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this utopian novel by Nikolay Chernyshevsky. A pamphlet with the same title as this novel asks the “Burning Questions of Our Movement.”

ANSWER: What Is to Be Done? [or Chto Delat']

[10h] Immediately after a blank section that represents the revolution, Vera enters one of these buildings while in a dream. A whole utopian house is contained inside that dream one of these buildings.

ANSWER: palaces [or dvorets]

[10e] What Is to Be Done? was written in response to this Ivan Turgenev novel about the nihilist Evgeny Bazarov, which also features a character with the surname Kirsanov.

ANSWER: Fathers and Sons [or Fathers and Children; or Otci i Deti]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	22.50	100%	75%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	21.43	100%	86%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	22.22	100%	78%	44%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


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