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 objects. That woman is remitted from her “debt” of watering two trees after a man shows her friends one of these objects (15[1])cursed by an (*) “irascible” sage. In the prologue of a play, the Stage Director introduces one of these objects “of recognition.” (10[2])One of these objects is lost when the title character of a play crosses a river to meet her husband and is later found (10[1])in the maw of a fish. (10[3])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? ■END■ (10[1])

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
Coby TranChicago BIllinois A7715
Ned TagtmeierChicago AMinnesota9810
Charles HangWUSTLNotre Dame B9810
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern AIndiana B12210
Justin HawkinsIndiana ANorthwestern B12810
Shardul ParthasarathyIllinois BNotre Dame C12810
Logan MathisSIUENotre Dame A12810
Davis JohnsonPurdueIllinois C15610

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