In a book by this author, the protagonist involuntarily sings “Wind Beneath My Wings” in a Panda Express before being unable to sing it at a funeral. In a book by this author, listening to Queen’s News of the World helps lead to the protagonist’s “first real kiss” with the guitarist Lucas while on an unwanted country music tour. After her boyfriend claims to be (*) Christ reincarnated, the protagonist of a book by this author breaks a heavily damaged molar on a flight to Australia and is inspired by “Focus,” a song recorded by this author’s former coworker. “What a Fool Believes” plays as this author leaves her abuser’s grave in a 2022 memoir with a pink and yellow cover that shows this author holding a confetti-filled urn. For 10 points, what author’s I’m Glad My Mom Died includes her time playing Sam on iCarly? ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 137.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 129.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 134.40 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.57 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 78% | 0% | 11% | 137.14 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 135.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 132.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 136.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 126.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Zhang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Brown | 58 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Coughing Baby | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | 66 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Columbia A | 84 | -5 |
| Stephen Liu | In Search of Lost Clues | Berkeley A | 103 | -5 |
| Valerie Brown | Carleton A | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | 109 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern A | UChicago A | 118 | 10 |
| Marianthe Dreisos | JHU B | NYU B | 121 | 10 |
| Cate Brunt | Queen's is monitoring the situation | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 122 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 125 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois | UChicago B | 126 | 10 |
| Gabriel McMurren | Guelph perfomative male competition | McGill B | 126 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill Fartlets | #OpenToBuzz | 126 | 10 |
| Josh Koch | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 127 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Maryland B | 127 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis | Yale | 127 | 10 |
| Thomas Hart | Knorr Stock Clue | To buzz is to be perceived | 129 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto G | Ottawa 67s | 130 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 130 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | VT B | Wise Duke | 130 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | JHU A | NYU A | 132 | -5 |
| Robert Crawley | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | Galactic Ombudsmen | 134 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Northwestern B | 136 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | WashU Kiki | 136 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT B | 137 | 10 |
| Jack Fox | Truman State | WashU Bouba | 137 | 10 |
| Annoshae Mirza | Berkeley C | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | 137 | 10 |
| Rachel Bentham | question mark | Bristold | 137 | 10 |
| Evan Lynch | Washed Scrubs | Chimp Brisket | 137 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Of Mice and Penn | 137 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | VT A | UNC B | 137 | 10 |
| Jack Howes | UChicago C | Indiana | 138 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | Planck Sinatra | UNC A | 138 | 10 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore | John Jay | 139 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo you are crooked | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | 139 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | JHU A | 140 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | Toronto E | 141 | 10 |
| Ben Liu | Hail to the Sheaf | The Bit and the Penndulum | 142 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 144 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 145 | 0 |
| Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Maryland A | 145 | 10 |
| Neal Frankenberg | Brown | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | 145 | 0 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard | MIT A | 145 | 0 |
| Luke Robitaille | MIT A | Harvard | 145 | 0 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | In Search of Lost Clues | 145 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 145 | 0 |