Sherlock Jr. - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

In this film, the main character uses a series of pool trick shots to avoid hitting an explosive number 13 ball, before it’s revealed that he already replaced the explosive ball. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this film, in which the film projectionist protagonist changes the price on a box of chocolates to seem more impressive. In a dream sequence in this film, the protagonist falls asleep and enters the movie he’s running.

ANSWER: Sherlock Jr. [or Sherlock Junior]

[10m] Sherlock Jr. is a film by this silent film star. In this star’s most famous movie, his character is disallowed from joining the Confederate military and chases Union troops after they steal his locomotive.

ANSWER: Buster Keaton [or Joseph Frank Keaton; reject “Joe Keaton” or “Joseph Hallie Keaton”]

[10e] A popular scene from The General shows one of these objects collapsing under the weight of a locomotive, “The Texas.” In a David Lean movie, British POWs construct one of these objects “on the River Kwai.”

ANSWER: a bridge [accept The Bridge on the River Kwai; accept railroad trestle or railway trestle]

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	50%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Toronto Ray Of Sun in the Sky	McDouble West-Carleton	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	Waterloo	0	10	0	10
Claremont	I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	0	10	10	20
NC State	James Madison A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Durham	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Oxford	0	10	10	20
Warwick	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Vanderbilt	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
OSU A	Kenyon B	0	0	10	10
MSU A and Friend	Boston College	10	10	10	30
Farrellmagnetism	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	0	0	10	10
Emory A	Georgia B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Georgia A	0	0	10	10
Cornell MATLAB	Syracuse+Rochester	0	0	10	10
Cornell R	RIT	0	10	10	20
TAMU	HCC	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
SIUE	Squidward Community College	0	0	10	10
WUSTL XYZ	WUSTL H2O	0	10	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	0	10	10