In one of this director’s movies, the protagonist saves a boy by using a bullroarer as a distraction before both are consumed by quicksand. Earlier in that movie by this director, the protagonist shuts down an underground garden after her father is killed by invading Tolmekians. In another movie by this director, a birthday girl grumpily rejects a herring and pumpkin pie made by her grandmother. The US invasion of (*) Iraq inspired this director to create a movie in which the protagonist breaks free of a curse by making a deal with a fire demon but keeps her white hair. In that movie by this director, the titular character fights a war as a bird while living in an enchanted house supported by Calcifer. For 10 points, name this Japanese director of Howl’s Moving Castle. ■END■
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 120.33 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Florida | 10/26/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 86.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Harvard | 10/26/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 119.50 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 0% | 103.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 103.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 130.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 110.00 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 13% | 114.67 |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 87.50 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 45 | 15 |
| Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan B | 45 | 15 |
| Michael Mays | 3HK1MM | Say it | 61 | 15 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois B | Notre Dame A | 75 | -5 |
| Roman Bassett | UF B | UF C | 75 | 10 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Chicago A | 77 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Minnesota | 83 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Limp Chriskit | Sorted | 94 | 10 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Pittsburgh | 94 | -5 |
| Khanh Nguyen | UF A | UCF | 97 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard B | Harvard A | 99 | 10 |
| Dillon Patel | The Crying of Team 49 | Four Times I Have Despised My Soul | 99 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Stanford | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 104 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | UNC C | Virginia Tech A | 108 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland | JHU A | 122 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | WUSTL | 123 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis | BU | 123 | -5 |
| Gangrade Aditya | BU | Brandeis | 123 | 10 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke A | UNC B | 123 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State C | Carnegie Mellon | 125 | 10 |
| Matthew Siff | Yale A | Yale B | 126 | 10 |
| Frances Hadley | Gressenheller A | LSE | 126 | 10 |
| Ace Chun | MIT | Tufts | 130 | 10 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Houston | 130 | 10 |
| Vincent Du | UNC A | RIT A | 130 | 10 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton | NYU A | 130 | -5 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia | JHU B | 134 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Princeton | 134 | 10 |
| David Zhang | Illinois C | Indiana B | 135 | 0 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Illinois C | 135 | 0 |
| Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 135 | 0 |
| Mohamad Musa | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 135 | 10 |
| Jon Parikh | Pittsburgh | Michigan State | 135 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Purdue | 135 | 10 |
| Alex DelVecchio | Notre Dame A | Illinois B | 135 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago B | Notre Dame B | 135 | 10 |
| Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | SIUE | 135 | 0 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Notre Dame C | 135 | 0 |
| Oliver Hargrave | See it | Oxford School for Quizness | 135 | 10 |