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 |
| 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 |
| Ishan Joshi | #OpenToBuzz | Ottawa 67s | 69 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | JHU B | 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 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford B | 73 | 10 |
| Adil Soubki | Galactic Ombudsmen | Washed Scrubs | 73 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill Fartlets | Queen's is monitoring the situation | 73 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Peter Breggren | MIT B | MIT A | 91 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland C | 91 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Mount Sinai | 91 | -5 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | Texas A | 91 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern A | Indiana | 91 | 10 |
| Megan Ha | UChicago B | Northwestern B | 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 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Free Win | Berkeley C | 127 | 0 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley C | Free Win | 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 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis | RIT | 127 | 10 |
| Brenden Stremler | Yale | Brown | 127 | 0 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Yale | 127 | 10 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | Central Oklahoma | 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 |
| 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 |
| Neal Joshi | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | WashU Bouba | 127 | 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 |
| 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 |