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Question

Intertitles from poems by Walt Whitman are interspersed in a 1921 short film by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler titled for this place. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this place. A couple on a park bench under a bridge watches the sunrise in a scene of a Woody Allen film titled for this place, in which his character answers the question “Why is life worth living?” from a couch.

ANSWER: Manhattan [accept Manhatta; prompt on New York City or NYC] (The second film is Woody Allen’s Manhattan.)

[10m] Manhatta pioneered a genre of avant-garde documentary whose name appends “city” to this sort of work, also in the subtitle of Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin. Nosferatu’s subtitle identifies it as this sort of work “of horror.”

ANSWER: symphony [accept city-symphony; or Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis; or Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror]

[10e] The Paris city symphony Nothing But Time was shot by a director from this country known mononymously as Cavalcanti. Rocket grows up in a slum in this country in Fernando Meirelles’s (“may-RELL-lees’s”) film City of God.

ANSWER: Brazil [or Federative Republic of Brazil]

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	12.50	88%	0%	38%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	67%	0%	67%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	50%	0%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	12.00	60%	0%	60%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	10.00	60%	20%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%

Data


Brandeis A	BU	10	0	10	20
Brandeis B	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Clark House	Amherst	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
MIT	Clark Wilson	0	0	10	10
Boston College A	Tufts B	10	0	10	20
Bowdoin C	Yale	0	0	10	10
Boston College B	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech C	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	10	0	10	20
Squidward Community College	Missouri	0	0	10	10
WashU	Truman	0	0	10	10
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Social credit go vroom	0	0	0	0
bingy academy	In the Mood for Buzz	0	10	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	0	10	20
Paddington in Peru (2024)	The cult of SGA	0	10	10	20
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	Old and Young	0	10	10	20
Penn State	Maryland	0	0	0	0
UCF B	Florida Tech	10	10	10	30
UF A	UCF A	0	0	10	10
UF B	UF C	0	0	10	10
Valencia	USF	0	0	0	0
Pitt	RIT	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Past	Stanford	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Carleton A	10	0	10	20
McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	0	0	0
Toronto B	Toronto A	10	0	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Waterloo Cloze	0	0	0	0
Waterloo Aspidistra	Waterloo Basic	10	0	10	20
Mississippi State	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Johns Creek	0	0	10	10
Innovation Academy A	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Innovation Academy C	Lambert	0	0	10	10
Milton	Innovation Academy B	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame	Illinois Blue	0	0	0	0
Chicago B	Purdue A	0	0	10	10
Illinois Orange	SIUE	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Cambridge B	0	0	0	0
LSE A	Warwick C	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Southampton	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Anderson et al.	Claremont	10	0	10	20
SGV Ventures	Jason et al.	0	10	10	20
U[C]SD	ALCU	10	0	10	20