In the credits of one film based on a work by this author, the supercomputer 550W talks with a digitally uploaded consciousness to reveal its new name “MOSS.” Roc Chen composed the steadily crescendoing track “Space Elevator” for the soundtrack of a prequel based on this author’s work. In a show based on a work by this author, a cut of a young boy standing behind a chain-link fence is interspersed in a montage showing a (*) ship being destroyed by an invisible metafiber net. At the end of a film based on a work by this author, a father tells his son to “lift his head” before driving a space station to ignite the gas between Jupiter and Earth to prevent a collision. For 10 points, The Wandering Earth was based on a short story by what Chinese sci-fi author of The Three-Body Problem? ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 126.67 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 102.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 94.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 132.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 111.43 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 123.78 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 115.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 122.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joy An | Harvard | MIT A | 39 | 15 |
| Jack Funke | New Young Whigs of America | rusty shackleford | 62 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Knorr Stock Clue | 62 | -5 |
| Joey Goldman | Washed Scrubs | Chimp Brisket | 78 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Northwestern B | 83 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa 67s | Toronto G | 83 | -5 |
| Josh Koch | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 83 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 83 | 10 |
| Stephen Liu | In Search of Lost Clues | Berkeley A | 83 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | Queen's is monitoring the situation | 83 | 10 |
| Will Alston | rusty shackleford | New Young Whigs of America | 86 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley C | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | 86 | 10 |
| Erik Christensen | #OpenToBuzz | McGill Fartlets | 89 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | Toronto E | 89 | 10 |
| Josh Iyo | UNC B | VT A | 91 | 10 |
| Nicolas Edwards | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | Carleton A | 93 | 10 |
| Vivek Sasse | Hail to the Sheaf | The Bit and the Penndulum | 96 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Of Mice and Penn | 96 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | JHU A | 96 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC A | Planck Sinatra | 98 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 105 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis | 112 | -5 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | Maryland C | 119 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas B | Texas A | 122 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU Kiki | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | 126 | 10 |
| Jonathan Lau | Maryland A | Columbia A | 128 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | UChicago A | Northwestern A | 129 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Brown | 130 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Coughing Baby | 134 | 10 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 135 | 10 |
| Evan McMullan | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 136 | -5 |
| Peter Breggren | MIT B | RIT | 137 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | JHU B | 138 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo you are crooked | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | 138 | 10 |
| Paul Lee | WashU Bouba | Truman State | 138 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | Columbia B | 139 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Galactic Ombudsmen | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 139 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois | UChicago B | 140 | 10 |
| Owen Steele | Swarthmore | John Jay | 140 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 140 | -5 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 140 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana | UChicago C | 142 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford B | Free Win | 142 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Bristold | 143 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | abg academy | 144 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Guelph perfomative male competition | McGill B | 144 | 0 |
| James Wadsley | McGill B | Guelph perfomative male competition | 144 | 10 |
| Chris Stewart | Oklahoma | Central Oklahoma | 144 | 0 |
| Philip Jordan | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 144 | 10 |
| Wisdom Obaigbena | Wise Duke | VT B | 144 | 0 |
| Zachary Bornstein | VT B | Wise Duke | 144 | 0 |
| Christopher Dech | Brandeis | Yale | 144 | 0 |
| Thomas Hart | Knorr Stock Clue | To buzz is to be perceived | 144 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto G | Ottawa 67s | 144 | 10 |