This thinker asked what we should do now that everything “has been liberated” and the “orgy is over.” This thinker cited Mauss’s gift-exchange and Freud’s death drive as examples of “symbolic exchange” that allow us to escape dominant ideologies. In The Transparency of Evil, this thinker called the saturation of art in the world “transaesthetics.” This philosopher invented a quote by Ecclesiastes to begin a chapter that considers (*) Borges’s (“BOR-hess’s”) map. Ideas multiplied and reflected by the media have structured our lives by supplanting the real, according to this philosopher’s idea of hyperreality. An essay by this philosopher argues that the asymmetrical power of the two sides in the Gulf War meant that it “did not take place.” For 10 points, name this author of Simulacra and Simulation. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 71.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 94.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 74.83 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 106.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 0% | 0% | 67% | 0.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 84.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 94.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 57% | 109.43 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 97.38 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 118.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 101.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | NYU A | 37 | 15 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Brandeis | 43 | -5 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Maryland A | 54 | 15 |
| Camden Williams | Truman State | WashU Kiki | 61 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State B | 68 | -5 |
| John Marvin | UChicago A | Purdue B | 68 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | #OpenToBuzz | Ottawa 67s | 69 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Coughing Baby | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 69 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Hail to the Sheaf | 69 | -5 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | JHU B | 70 | 10 |
| Stephen Liu | In Search of Lost Clues | Berkeley B | 70 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley A | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | 70 | 10 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | JHU A | 71 | 10 |
| Will Alston | rusty shackleford | abg academy | 71 | -5 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | 71 | -5 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill Fartlets | Queen's is monitoring the situation | 73 | -5 |
| Adil Soubki | Galactic Ombudsmen | Washed Scrubs | 73 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford B | 73 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | 75 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas B | Oklahoma | 76 | 10 |
| Raymond Wang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Harvard | 80 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Guelph perfomative male competition | Toronto E | 80 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | McGill B | 82 | -5 |
| Wisdom Obaigbena | Wise Duke | UNC A | 84 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | Planck Sinatra | VT A | 85 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto G | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 85 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois | UChicago C | 88 | -5 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland C | 91 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Mount Sinai | 91 | -5 |
| Peter Breggren | MIT B | MIT A | 91 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | Texas A | 91 | -5 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Indiana | 91 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | UChicago B | Northwestern B | 91 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Knorr Stock Clue | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 91 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | The Bit and the Penndulum | Bristold | 91 | 10 |
| Oliver Hargrave | Hail to the Sheaf | To buzz is to be perceived | 91 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo you are crooked | Carleton A | 93 | 10 |
| Josh Koch | Michigan B | CWRU | 113 | -5 |
| Imran Rahman | Chimp Brisket | Of Mice and Penn | 115 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 116 | 10 |
| Khang Le | abg academy | rusty shackleford | 118 | 10 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | John Jay | 126 | 10 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU | Michigan B | 127 | 0 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 127 | 0 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 127 | 0 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Pittsburgh | 127 | 0 |
| Zachary Bornstein | VT B | UNC B | 127 | 0 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC B | VT B | 127 | 0 |
| Paul Lee | WashU Bouba | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | 127 | 0 |
| Neal Joshi | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | WashU Bouba | 127 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Central Oklahoma | 127 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill B | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 127 | 10 |
| Ian Theysmeyer | Queen's is monitoring the situation | McGill Fartlets | 127 | 10 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa 67s | #OpenToBuzz | 127 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis | RIT | 127 | 10 |
| Brenden Stremler | Yale | Brown | 127 | 0 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Yale | 127 | 10 |
| Mats Miller | UChicago C | Illinois | 127 | 10 |
| Sheehan Banka | New Young Whigs of America | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | 127 | 0 |
| Maude-Sophie Lockman | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | 127 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Free Win | Berkeley C | 127 | 0 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley C | Free Win | 127 | 0 |
| Delia Cropper | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Coughing Baby | 127 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | question mark | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 127 | 0 |