Question
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■
Summary
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 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Todd Maslyk | Michigan A | Michigan B | 45 | 15 |
Owen Gilroy | Texas B | TAMU | 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 |
Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Pittsburgh | 94 | -5 |
Oscar O'Flanagan | Limp Chriskit | Sorted | 94 | 10 |
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 |
Gangrade Aditya | BU | Brandeis | 123 | 10 |
Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis | BU | 123 | -5 |
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 |
Jake Grodner | Princeton | NYU A | 130 | -5 |
Athena Shadden | Texas A | Houston | 130 | 10 |
Vincent Du | UNC A | RIT A | 130 | 10 |
Derek Chen | Columbia | JHU B | 134 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Princeton | 134 | 10 |
Mohamad Musa | Ohio State B | Ohio State A | 135 | 10 |
Peter Zeng | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 135 | 0 |
Jon Parikh | Pittsburgh | Michigan State | 135 | 10 |
Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Illinois C | 135 | 0 |
David Zhang | Illinois C | Indiana B | 135 | 0 |
Coby Tran | Chicago B | Notre Dame B | 135 | 10 |
Alex DelVecchio | Notre Dame A | Illinois B | 135 | 10 |
Logan Mathis | SIUE | Notre Dame C | 135 | 0 |
Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Purdue | 135 | 10 |
Matthew Amante | Notre Dame C | SIUE | 135 | 0 |
Oliver Hargrave | See it | Oxford School for Quizness | 135 | 10 |