Virgin Lands Campaign - 2025 Penn Bowl - BU

Question

This program was bolstered by Roswell Garst’s efforts to export seed corn and teach proper farming practices. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this program, in which many people moved to Kazakhstan in order to work as farmers, leading to a strong harvest in 1956 and disappointing harvests otherwise.

ANSWER: Virgin Lands Campaign [or Osvoyeniye tseliny]

[10h] Many of these farms were established as part of the Virgin Lands campaign. In contrast to a similarly named type of collective farm, they were state-owned and paid wages to unionized workers.

ANSWER: sovkhoz [reject “kolkhoz”]

[10e] The Virgin Lands Campaign was initiated by this Soviet leader, who denounced his predecessor Stalin in the “Secret Speech.”

ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev [or Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


Brown	Harvard	0	10	10
MIT B	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	10	10
MIT A	Brandeis	10	10	20
Yale	RIT	0	10	10