Chao Tian, a player of this instrument, released an album alongside Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink pairing it with American old-time music. A player of one type of this instrument wrote the songs “Black Waters” and “The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore,” typically using its noter-drone style. This instrument, distinguished from the historical psaltery by the method of sounding the strings, has variants including the santur and cimbalom. Jean (*) (“gene”) Ritchie popularized a style of playing this instrument from Kentucky. An Abyssinian maid plays this instrument while “singing of Mount Abora” in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” For 10 points, name this instrument that comes in “Appalachian” and “hammered” types, a member of the zither family. ■END■
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 89.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern | 10/25/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 25% | 25% | 73.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn) | 11/01/25 | Y | 6 | 67% | 17% | 83% | 100.75 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - BU | 11/01/25 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 50% | 96.33 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 86.50 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UNC | 11/01/25 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 98.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - WashU | 11/01/25 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 77.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa | 11/01/25 | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 43% | 95.80 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - UK | 11/01/25 | Y | 9 | 67% | 22% | 22% | 79.67 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Online | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 81.00 |
| 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State | 11/08/25 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 100% | 115.00 |
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| Eve Fleisig | To buzz is to be perceived | Chimp Brisket | 68 | 15 |
| Jon Violet | 1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail | Galactic Ombudsmen | 68 | 15 |
| Frances Hadley | Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance | Knorr Stock Clue | 69 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli | Washed Scrubs | 69 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Coughing Baby | The Bit and the Penndulum | 89 | 10 |
| Joseph Collins | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | Of Mice and Penn | 105 | -5 |
| Daniel Bloom | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | question mark | 115 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | question mark | Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh | 115 | 0 |
| Vivek Sasse | Hail to the Sheaf | Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament | 115 | 0 |
| Richard Pollard | Of Mice and Penn | Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins | 115 | 0 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | Bristold | 115 | 0 |
| Ted Warner | Bristold | why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it | 115 | 0 |