At the end of a story by this author, the “brilliant, baleful splendour” of a rejuvenated rose fills the barracks of a regiment departing for France. A bicyclist drinking from a village fountain is invited to dinner by a mute housekeeper in this author’s story “The Lady of the House of Love.” The protagonist’s mother shoots a man wielding an ancestral sword at the end of a story this author set in a seaside (*) castle. One of this author’s characters is marked on the forehead by a bloodstained key. “The Company of Wolves” appears among three lupine stories at the end of a collection by this author. A new bride sees torture devices after she enters the Marquis’s forbidden room in this author’s retelling of the Bluebeard story. For 10 points, name this author of “The Bloody Chamber.” ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 77.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 33% | 110.17 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 75% | 113.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 119.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 106.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 71% | 14% | 0% | 90.40 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 100% | 33% | 11% | 96.11 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 127.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Newman | Wise Duke | UNC B | 22 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 36 | 15 |
| Sky Li | Toronto G | Guelph perfomative male competition | 44 | 15 |
| Jamie Burchett | Coughing Baby | Hail to the Sheaf | 44 | 15 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Chimp Brisket | 51 | -5 |
| CT Tang | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 51 | 15 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland C | 53 | 15 |
| Richard Niu | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | Berkeley C | 54 | 15 |
| Stephen Liu | In Search of Lost Clues | Stanford A | 75 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | MIT A | 79 | -5 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU Bouba | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | 84 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo you are crooked | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 87 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Brandeis | 88 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Harvard | 88 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 88 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | McGill B | 89 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | CWRU | 92 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | UChicago B | UChicago C | 92 | 10 |
| Will Alston | rusty shackleford | abg academy | 92 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Free Win | 92 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Columbia B | 94 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | The Bit and the Penndulum | Galactic Ombudsmen | 94 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois | UChicago A | 95 | 10 |
| Jon Violet | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 95 | 10 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore | NYU B | 96 | 10 |
| Henry Jiang | MIT B | Brown | 106 | -5 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 106 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | Queen's is monitoring the situation | 106 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC A | VT A | 106 | 10 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | JHU A | 114 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Maryland B | 117 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas B | Oklahoma | 117 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | JHU B | 119 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU Kiki | Truman State | 123 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Central Oklahoma | 126 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Hall Godfrey | Toronto E | McGill Fartlets | 126 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 127 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | New Young Whigs of America | 130 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristold | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 132 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | Of Mice and Penn | question mark | 137 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | RIT | 138 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Yale | 138 | 0 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Michigan A | 138 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Columbia A | 138 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | JHU A | Mount Sinai | 138 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | Texas A | 138 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue B | Northwestern B | 138 | 10 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton A | #OpenToBuzz | 138 | 0 |
| Jesse Chusing | #OpenToBuzz | Carleton A | 138 | 0 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa 67s | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 138 | 0 |
| Oscar Siddle | Chimp Brisket | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 138 | 10 |
| Thomas Hart | Knorr Stock Clue | Washed Scrubs | 138 | 10 |