In the credits of one film based on a work by this author, the supercomputer 550W talks with a digitally uploaded consciousness to reveal its new name “MOSS.” Roc Chen composed the steadily crescendoing track “Space Elevator” for the soundtrack of a prequel based on this author’s work. In a show based on a work by this author, a cut of a young boy standing behind a chain-link fence is interspersed in a montage showing a (*) ship being destroyed by an invisible metafiber net. At the end of a film based on a work by this author, a father tells his son to “lift his head” before driving a space station to ignite the gas between Jupiter and Earth to prevent a collision. For 10 points, The Wandering Earth was based on a short story by what Chinese sci-fi author of The Three-Body Problem? ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 111.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 126.67 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 102.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 90.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 94.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 132.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 111.43 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 123.78 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 115.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 122.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Knorr Stock Clue | 62 | -5 |
| Joey Goldman | Washed Scrubs | Chimp Brisket | 78 | 10 |
| Vivek Sasse | Hail to the Sheaf | The Bit and the Penndulum | 96 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Of Mice and Penn | 96 | 10 |
| Zach Foster | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Coughing Baby | 134 | 10 |
| Evan McMullan | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 136 | -5 |
| Daniel Hobba | Galactic Ombudsmen | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 139 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 140 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Bristold | 143 | 10 |
| Thomas Hart | Knorr Stock Clue | To buzz is to be perceived | 144 | 10 |
| Philip Jordan | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 144 | 10 |