Question

To get one of these objects, a man pretends to have been bitten by a snake while picking flowers and later uses that object to help a character escape prison. While speaking to a clown, a character recalls telling a woman to “Count every day one letter of my name” after giving her one of these (-5[1])objects. That woman is remitted from her “debt” of watering two trees after a man shows her friends one of these objects cursed by an (*) “irascible” sage. In the prologue of a play, the Stage Director introduces one of these (10[1])objects “of recognition.” One of these objects is lost when the title character of a play crosses a river to meet her husband and is later found in the maw of a fish. For 10 points, in The Recognition of Shakuntala, the title character is cursed to be forgotten by her husband until she shows him what kind of jewelry? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: a signet ring (the play in the first line is Kālidāsa’s Mālavikā and Agnimitra)
<Kevin Wang, World Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
John XiangBerkeley BBerkeley A55-5
Michal GerasimiukStanfordBerkeley C9510
Eve FleisigBerkeley ABerkeley B15510

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%0%114.33
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%0%119.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%0%0%127.50
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%0%0%114.00
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%50%125.00
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%0%120.67
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y475%0%50%136.33
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%13%0%116.88
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%130.50