Loading...
One of this author’s characters frames a letter from Maxim Gorky after publishing a novel about a boy who is abducted by a seaweed-like extraterrestrial. In a novel by this author, a former architect designs the cover of the literary magazine Lee Harvey Oswald, which contained poems from the architect’s “poetess” daughters Angelíca (“ahn-heh-LEE-kah”) and María. In a novel by this author, Liz (*) Norton returns to the wheelchair-using Piero Morini, ending their initial search for the pseudonymous author Hans Reiter. In another novel by this author, Ulises Lima and Arturo search for Cesárea Tinajero (“say-SAH-ray-uh tee-nah-HEY-roe”), the mysterious founder of Visceral Realism. For 10 points, name this Chilean novelist who wrote 2666 and The Savage Detectives. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 72.67 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 0% | 67.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 67% | 17% | 33% | 79.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 106.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 82.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 98.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 98.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 29% | 92.60 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 100% | 11% | 33% | 92.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 65.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 92.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Columbia B | 40 | 15 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto G | McGill B | 42 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois | Northwestern B | 43 | 15 |
| Daoud Jackson | To buzz is to be perceived | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 43 | 15 |
| Nelson Ma | abg academy | rusty shackleford | 46 | 15 |
| Richard Niu | The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now | Stanford A | 46 | 15 |
| Jon Violet | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Hail to the Sheaf | 52 | -5 |
| Rachel Fanous | Michigan A | Michigan C | 60 | 15 |
| Raymond Wang | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | Brown | 64 | -5 |
| Alvin Guo | UChicago A | UChicago B | 66 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas B | Oklahoma | 68 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | VT A | VT B | 68 | -5 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley C | Stanford B | 74 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Maryland C | 75 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto Operation PBSuccess | Ottawa 67s | 76 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 76 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça | Toronto Sunshine Bubbles | 78 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan B | 78 | 10 |
| Daniel Hothem | In Search of Lost Clues | Berkeley A | 78 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 78 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Washed Scrubs | 78 | 10 |
| Sheehan Banka | New Young Whigs of America | Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery | 84 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Brandeis | 86 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | The Bit and the Penndulum | Knorr Stock Clue | 88 | 10 |
| Omkar Marathe | Columbia A | Maryland B | 88 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | JHU B | 90 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore | Mount Sinai | 90 | -5 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC A | UNC B | 91 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Central Oklahoma | 92 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana | Purdue A | 92 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley B | Free Win | 94 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton A | McGill Fartlets | 95 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Coughing Baby | Galactic Ombudsmen | 98 | -5 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | 98 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | #OpenToBuzz | Queen's is monitoring the situation | 98 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville | WashU Bouba | 98 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU Kiki | Truman State | 98 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | JHU A | NYU B | 98 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo you are crooked | Toronto E | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Newman | Wise Duke | Planck Sinatra | 105 | 10 |
| Oscar O’Flanagan | Chimp Brisket | Bristold | 108 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 108 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | Of Mice and Penn | 109 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Guelph perfomative male competition | Toronto Murder on the Rider Express | 109 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene | 113 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | RIT | 113 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | UChicago C | 113 | 0 |
| Mats Miller | UChicago C | Purdue B | 113 | 0 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill Fartlets | Carleton A | 113 | 0 |
| James Wadsley | McGill B | Toronto G | 113 | 0 |
| Daniel Hobba | Galactic Ombudsmen | Coughing Baby | 113 | 10 |
| Oliver Hargrave | Hail to the Sheaf | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | 113 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | VT B | VT A | 113 | 0 |
| Michael Kearney | Harvard | MIT B | 113 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Berkeley C | 113 | 0 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland C | John Jay | 113 | 0 |
| Daniel Ma | Mount Sinai | Swarthmore | 113 | 0 |