One tradition from this country involves hanging a cooked sardine head on a holly branch by the front door; on that holiday from this country, people often sit in silence and eat a roll while facing in a lucky direction. As part of a spring festival in this country, people shout “Devils out! Fortune in!” while throwing beans at somebody wearing a demon mask. A fall rite of passage in this country celebrates children at the ages of (*) three, five, and seven. A May holiday during this country’s “Golden Week” that originated as the counterpart to a holiday on which dolls are displayed involves flying images of carp. This country’s springtime celebration of hanami focuses on viewing flowers, particularly the sakura. For 10 points, name this country where most Shinto practitioners live. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 77.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 74.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 73.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 67.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 79.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 92.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 71.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 29% | 29% | 91.86 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 100% | 56% | 11% | 76.44 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 72.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond Wang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Brandeis | 18 | 15 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | Swarthmore | 39 | 15 |
| Brenden Stremler | Yale | MIT A | 39 | 15 |
| Rohan Shelke | Berkeley B | Stanford B | 45 | 15 |
| Victoria Felten | Hail to the Sheaf | Coughing Baby | 48 | 15 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Knorr Stock Clue | Washed Scrubs | 52 | 15 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU Bouba | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | 54 | 15 |
| Daoud Jackson | To buzz is to be perceived | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 54 | 15 |
| Ben LaFond | Galactic Ombudsmen | The Bit and the Penndulum | 57 | 15 |
| Owen Eskey | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 58 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | CWRU | 59 | 15 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 59 | 15 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | Maryland A | 59 | 15 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's is monitoring the situation | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | 62 | 15 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois | UChicago A | 63 | 15 |
| Oliver Morten | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | 63 | -5 |
| Keira Flenniken | Oklahoma | Texas B | 63 | 15 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Of Mice and Penn | 63 | 15 |
| Orion Keller | VT A | UNC A | 65 | 15 |
| Alec Zelek | Toronto E | McGill Fartlets | 66 | -5 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto G | Guelph perfomative male competition | 68 | 15 |
| Robert Wang | Columbia A | Columbia B | 72 | 15 |
| Aedan Cooper | Ottawa 67s | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 78 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Free Win | 78 | 10 |
| Eric Chen | In Search of Lost Clues | Stanford A | 78 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | JHU A | Mount Sinai | 79 | 10 |
| Owen Mimno | NYU A | Maryland C | 79 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton A | #OpenToBuzz | 79 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Northwestern A | 81 | 10 |
| Oscar Siddle | Chimp Brisket | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 81 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Central Oklahoma | 81 | 10 |
| Will Alston | rusty shackleford | abg academy | 81 | 10 |
| CT Tang | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 81 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU Kiki | Truman State | 89 | 10 |
| Peter Breggren | MIT B | Brown | 91 | 10 |
| Micah Colman | Waterloo you are crooked | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 92 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | UChicago B | UChicago C | 94 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley C | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | 109 | 10 |
| Aiden Bang | JHU B | John Jay | 113 | 10 |
| Nicolas Edwards | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | McGill B | 113 | -5 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | New Young Whigs of America | 117 | 10 |
| Dan Hawkins | Bristold | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 120 | 10 |
| Joshua Garner | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 120 | 10 |
| Max Kurzman | UNC B | Wise Duke | 120 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard | RIT | 120 | 10 |
| Aaron Storr | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 132 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | 132 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill Fartlets | Toronto E | 132 | 10 |