At the end of a story by this author, the “brilliant, baleful splendour” of a rejuvenated rose fills the barracks of a regiment departing for France. A bicyclist drinking from a village fountain is invited to dinner by a mute housekeeper in this author’s story “The Lady of the House of Love.” The protagonist’s mother shoots a man wielding an ancestral sword at the end of a story this author set in a seaside (*) castle. One of this author’s characters is marked on the forehead by a bloodstained key. “The Company of Wolves” appears among three lupine stories at the end of a collection by this author. A new bride sees torture devices after she enters the Marquis’s forbidden room in this author’s retelling of the Bluebeard story. For 10 points, name this author of “The Bloody Chamber.” ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 36 | 15 |
| Jamie Burchett | Coughing Baby | Hail to the Sheaf | 44 | 15 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Chimp Brisket | 51 | -5 |
| CT Tang | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 51 | 15 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | The Bit and the Penndulum | Galactic Ombudsmen | 94 | 10 |
| Jon Violet | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 95 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristold | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 132 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | Of Mice and Penn | question mark | 137 | 10 |
| Oscar Siddle | Chimp Brisket | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 138 | 10 |
| Thomas Hart | Knorr Stock Clue | Washed Scrubs | 138 | 10 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 77.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 17% | 33% | 110.17 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 75% | 113.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 119.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 106.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 71% | 14% | 0% | 90.40 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 100% | 33% | 11% | 96.11 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 127.50 |