Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón’s 2025-26 Metropolitan Opera production is an opera set in this country starring Nadine Sierra. The final soprano cabaletta of that opera set in this country begins [read slowly] “F, B-flat, D, long D,” and features a long E-flat-6 before the recapitulation. La sonnambula is set in this country, as well as an opera that propelled Luciano Pavarotti to stardom in 1972. La fille du régiment (“la FEE doo RAY-zhee-mahn”) is set in this country. An opera set in this country features the “Mount (*) Everest for tenors,” which Tonio sings to the canteen-girl Marie. An opera whose overture includes a “Ranz de Vaches,” (“rahnz duh vash”) which features a duet between the flute and English horn, is set in this country. An opera set in this country depicts the protagonist shooting an apple off his son’s head. For 10 points, name this setting of Rossini’s opera William Tell. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 50% | 116.25 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 75% | 124.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 67% | 137.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 99.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 109.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 135.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 135.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 14% | 111.43 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 89% | 11% | 44% | 117.38 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 137.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frances Hadley | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Knorr Stock Clue | 25 | -5 |
| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Chimp Brisket | 49 | 15 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 62 | -5 |
| Oliver Morten | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | Hail to the Sheaf | 65 | -5 |
| Evan Lynch | Washed Scrubs | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | 90 | -5 |
| Gus Redding | The Bit and the Penndulum | Coughing Baby | 103 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Washed Scrubs | 120 | 10 |
| Dan Hawkins | Bristold | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | 126 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Of Mice and Penn | 129 | 10 |
| Richard McNair | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Galactic Ombudsmen | 130 | 10 |
| Daniel Bloom | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | question mark | 141 | 10 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Knorr Stock Clue | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | 141 | 10 |
| Oliver Hargrave | Hail to the Sheaf | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 142 | 0 |