While leaving this city, the protagonist and her childhood friend Ida promise to “become adults as no one ever had before.” In a novel set in this city, the protagonist’s adulterous, academic parents are contrasted with her working-class aunt, who gives her a bracelet. A woman removes all her things and cuts herself out of photographs before vanishing from this city, as recounted in a phone call by (*) Rino to his mother’s friend. The arrival of two dolls in the mail ends a series about two girls who grew up in this city, where they were terrorised by the Solaras. A novel set in this city, The Lying Lives of Adults, was written by a pseudonymous author who recounted Lenù and Lila’s childhood in this city. For 10 points, the novel My Brilliant Friend begins an Elena Ferrante quartet set in what Italian city? ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 76.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 87.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 115.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 93.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 33% | 33% | 33% | 59.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 67.67 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 105.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 100% | 11% | 11% | 107.78 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 118.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 75.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | JHU A | 42 | 15 |
| Stephen Liu | In Search of Lost Clues | Berkeley A | 55 | 15 |
| Travis Johnson | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 59 | 15 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas B | 60 | 15 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | The Bit and the Penndulum | Hail to the Sheaf | 60 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | VT A | UNC B | 60 | 15 |
| Ben Newman | Wise Duke | VT B | 60 | 15 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois | UChicago B | 60 | 15 |
| Joseph Krol | To buzz is to be perceived | Knorr Stock Clue | 67 | 15 |
| Omer Keskin | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 68 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Ottawa 67s | Toronto G | 70 | 10 |
| Annabelle Yang | WashU Bouba | Truman State | 80 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis | 80 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 80 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | UChicago A | Northwestern A | 81 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | UNC A | Planck Sinatra | 83 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | Carleton A | 83 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | Waterloo you are crooked | 83 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | Berkeley C | 83 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Bristold | 84 | 10 |
| Nathan Zhang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Brown | 85 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana | UChicago C | 86 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Free Win | Stanford B | 86 | 10 |
| Collin Leck | Central Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 91 | 10 |
| Joey Goldman | Washed Scrubs | Chimp Brisket | 91 | 10 |
| Nelson Ma | abg academy | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | 92 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU Kiki | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | 99 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Columbia B | 108 | 10 |
| Jon Violet | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Coughing Baby | 114 | 10 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard | MIT A | 115 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | #OpenToBuzz | McGill Fartlets | 115 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | Queen's is monitoring the situation | 115 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Swarthmore | 121 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Northwestern B | 121 | 10 |
| Aiden Bang | JHU B | NYU B | 128 | -5 |
| Robert Crawley | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | Galactic Ombudsmen | 132 | 10 |
| Josh Koch | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 133 | -5 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Maryland A | 133 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Of Mice and Penn | 133 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | rusty shackleford | New Young Whigs of America | 135 | -5 |
| Philip Jordan | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 137 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Guelph perfomative male competition | McGill B | 137 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 144 | 0 |
| Michael Durrant | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 144 | 0 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 144 | 0 |
| Henry Bauer | NYU B | JHU B | 144 | 10 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | Maryland C | 144 | 10 |
| Vivek Sasse | Hail to the Sheaf | The Bit and the Penndulum | 144 | 10 |
| Henry Jiang | MIT B | RIT | 144 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | MIT B | 144 | 0 |
| Lucas Barnes | New Young Whigs of America | rusty shackleford | 144 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's is monitoring the situation | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 144 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hall Godfrey | Toronto E | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 144 | 0 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | Toronto E | 144 | 0 |