Chao Tian, a player of this instrument, released an album alongside Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink pairing it with American old-time music. A player of one type of this instrument wrote the songs “Black Waters” and “The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore,” typically using its noter-drone style. This instrument, distinguished from the historical psaltery by the method of sounding the strings, has variants including the santur and cimbalom. Jean (*) (“gene”) Ritchie popularized a style of playing this instrument from Kentucky. An Abyssinian maid plays this instrument while “singing of Mount Abora” in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” For 10 points, name this instrument that comes in “Appalachian” and “hammered” types, a member of the zither family. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 89.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 73.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 67% | 17% | 83% | 100.75 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 96.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 86.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 98.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 77.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 43% | 95.80 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 67% | 22% | 22% | 79.67 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 81.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 100% | 115.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | NYU A | 58 | 15 |
| Oliver Morten | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | Hail to the Sheaf | 60 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | JHU A | 66 | -5 |
| John Marvin | UChicago A | Northwestern B | 67 | 15 |
| John John Groger | WashU Kiki | WashU Bouba | 67 | 15 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | Columbia A | 67 | -5 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | JHU A | John Jay | 67 | 0 |
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Chimp Brisket | 68 | 15 |
| Jon Violet | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Galactic Ombudsmen | 68 | 15 |
| Omer Korkmaz | JHU B | Maryland A | 69 | -5 |
| Frances Hadley | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Knorr Stock Clue | 69 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Washed Scrubs | 69 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois | Indiana | 70 | 10 |
| Eric Chen | In Search of Lost Clues | Stanford A | 70 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | Stanford B | 70 | -5 |
| Walter Zhang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Harvard | 76 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | UChicago B | Northwestern A | 78 | -5 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto G | Carleton A | 78 | 10 |
| Josh Koch | Michigan B | Pittsburgh | 78 | -5 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | Maryland C | 78 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Free Win | Berkeley C | 78 | -5 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | McGill Fartlets | 79 | -5 |
| Brody Sadler | Central Oklahoma | Texas B | 80 | -5 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas A | Oklahoma | 80 | -5 |
| Aatreyo Bhattacharyya | abg academy | New Young Whigs of America | 80 | -5 |
| Alma Gazzaniga | UNC B | UNC A | 80 | -5 |
| Maude-Sophie Lockman | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | Ottawa 67s | 80 | -5 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo you are crooked | McGill B | 80 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland B | 80 | -5 |
| Will Alston | rusty shackleford | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | 81 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Purdue A | 82 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | VT A | VT B | 84 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | Guelph perfomative male competition | 84 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 84 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | CWRU | 84 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 84 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis | RIT | 85 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | Truman State | 87 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | MIT A | 89 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 89 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Coughing Baby | The Bit and the Penndulum | 89 | 10 |
| Henry Jiang | MIT B | Yale | 92 | -5 |
| Ben Newman | Wise Duke | Planck Sinatra | 95 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | #OpenToBuzz | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 95 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Of Mice and Penn | 105 | -5 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's is monitoring the situation | Toronto E | 107 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley C | Free Win | 114 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas B | Central Oklahoma | 115 | 10 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Texas A | 115 | 0 |
| Matthew Schiavone | Northwestern A | UChicago B | 115 | 0 |
| Jack Funke | New Young Whigs of America | abg academy | 115 | 0 |
| Ted Warner | Bristold | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | 115 | 0 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Bristold | 115 | 0 |
| Joseph Cole | UNC A | UNC B | 115 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa 67s | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | 115 | 10 |
| Ava Butler | McGill B | Waterloo you are crooked | 115 | 0 |
| Denali Tran-Le | McGill Fartlets | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 115 | 0 |
| William Orr | Yale | MIT B | 115 | 0 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU | Ohio State B | 115 | 0 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Mount Sinai | 115 | 0 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | JHU B | 115 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland B | Swarthmore | 115 | 10 |
| Aaron Henry | Maryland C | NYU B | 115 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | 115 | 0 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 115 | 0 |
| Daniel Bloom | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | question mark | 115 | 10 |
| Vivek Sasse | Hail to the Sheaf | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 115 | 0 |
| Richard Pollard | Of Mice and Penn | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 115 | 0 |