Billy Wilder - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

Answer some questions about comedies directed by Ernst Lubitsch, for 10 points each:

[10m] The script for Lubitsch’s film Ninotchka was partly written by this director of Some Like it Hot. The screenwriter Joe Gillis narrates how he ended up dead in a swimming pool in this director’s film Sunset Boulevard.

ANSWER: Billy Wilder

[10e] Lubitsch satirized the Nazis in this film about a Polish acting troupe resisting Hitler’s rule. Twice in this film, a soldier leaves his seat to begin an affair after hearing this film’s six-word title phrase, the start of a Hamlet soliloquy about suicide.

ANSWER: To Be or Not to Be

[10h] After Gilda marries in Lubitsch’s film Design for Living, she receives flowers with a note claiming they’re “all the way from” this country. In an iconic shot from a Josef von Sternberg film set in this country, a “coaster” played by Marlene Dietrich looks up with only her face illuminated.

ANSWER: China [or People’s Republic of China or PRC or Zhongguo or Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo; reject “Republic of China”] (The von Sternberg film that uses butterfly lighting is Shanghai Express.)

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	16.67	100%	44%	22%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	18.75	100%	88%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Ohio State D	Michigan A	0	0	0	0
Pittsburgh	Michigan D	10	10	10	30
Art of Premature Signaling	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	Caltech	10	10	0	20
Claremont A	girl 15 whale i mean they	10	10	10	30
UCSB	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCSD	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	Oberlin	0	0	0	0
Billy's Bastion	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	10	10	0	20
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	0	10	0	10
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Too much from you lately	10	10	10	30
Brandeis	BU	0	10	0	10
Brown	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Harvard	MIT	0	10	0	10
RIT	Lexington	10	10	0	20
CWRU	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Catholic University of America	Georgetown	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins B	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
George Washington	NYU B	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Haverford A	10	10	0	20
George Mason A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	Haverford B	10	10	0	20
NYU C	Rutgers	0	10	0	10
UW A	Arizona State University B	0	10	0	10
UW B	Alberta	10	10	0	20
mongeese	Auburn 2026	0	10	0	10
Free Agents 1	Gruh	10	10	0	20
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Goober Gang	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame + Epic Games	Illinois Orange	0	10	0	10
Mahjonng Masters	evil women enjoyers	0	10	0	10
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	MSJ	10	10	10	30
we need new names	Quatumvirate	0	10	0	10
Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	10	10	10	30
Arizona State University A	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	0	10
Washington Connections	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Egypt Airlines Haters	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	10	10	0	20
LSE	Cambridge	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Sheffield A	0	0	0	0
Sheffield B	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Sheffield C	Lancaster + Sheffield C	0	10	0	10
Warwick A	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Warwick C	10	10	0	20
McGill A	UBC	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Waterloo C	10	10	0	20
Toronto C	Mac A	10	10	0	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Guelph	10	10	0	20
Ottawa A	Waterloo A	10	10	0	20
Waterloo B	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	McGill B	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Toronto A	10	10	0	20
Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	0	10	0	10
Master and Margaritaville	Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	10	10	0	20
Even in Blacksburg There I Am	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	Truman State	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	SIUE	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
WashU Bulbasaur	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
WashU Squirtle	WashU Charmander	0	10	0	10