Question
After a boy snaps a rabbit’s neck in a film by this director, the camera cuts to a close-up showing drops of its blood on wheat stalks. In a film by this director, an animation of a man bursting into flames accompanies a girl discussing how her late father was struck by lightning in the Pyrenees. In a film by this director, a woman falls into alcoholism after a man taunts her by whistling the “Radetzky March.” A man masturbates with a scarf owned by (*) Bronco Henry near a watering hole on his ranch in a film by this director. At the end of a film by this director, a character receives a prosthetic finger after surviving a fall into the sea while tied to the title object. In that film by this director, the mute musician Ada leaves her marriage to a New Zealand settler. For 10 points, what director of The Power of the Dog became the first woman to win the Palme d’Or for her film The Piano? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 33% | 80.33 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 82.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 124.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | N | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 132.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 93.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 33% | 0% | 33% | 112.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 105.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 26 | 15 |
Benjamin Watson | Limp Franceskit | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 73 | 15 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford+ | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 76 | 15 |
Kevin Ye | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Cry of the Common Loon | 76 | 15 |
Nicholas Tunks | Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 76 | 15 |
Swapnil Garg | Berkeley | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 79 | -5 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | BHSU Rebirth | 86 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Berkeley | 89 | 10 |
Natan Holtzman | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 89 | 10 |
Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Cien Años de Quizboledad | 92 | 10 |
Jonathan Schnipper | Hu up Jinning they Tao | |madam| | 93 | 10 |
David Bass | just one more half-dot bro | Walston et. al. | 99 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 108 | -5 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 114 | -5 |
Dylan Minarik | BHSU ReFantazio | WashU | 138 | 10 |
Patrick Quion | Northeast by Northwestern | Notre Dame | 145 | -5 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Cambridge | 151 | 10 |
JinAh Kim | Banned from ARGOS | Import Pandas | 156 | 10 |
Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | Cope is the thing with feathers | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 156 | 10 |
King Vidor | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | UBC | 165 | -5 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | Clown Squad | 171 | 0 |
Max Brodsky | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | 171 | 0 |
Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame | Northeast by Northwestern | 171 | 0 |
Coby Tran | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | hawk two of | 171 | 0 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Clown Squad | Clown Senpais | 171 | 0 |