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Question

In this film, a reporter kicks a green fuel can down a street after finally finding a tape recorder. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this 1990 film, which depicts the fraud trial of a man who impersonated Mohsen Makhmalbaf (“MAKH-mall-boff”). Near the end of this film, two men ride on a motorcycle after buying pink flowers.

ANSWER: Close-Up

[10e] Close-Up is set in this country, the home of its director Abbas Kiarostami. This country is also the setting of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.

ANSWER: Iran [or Islamic Republic of Iran or Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran]

[10h] For a film titled for this location, Kiarostami carved a zigzag path into a hill with a lone olive tree at the top. In the first film in the Koker Trilogy, Ahmad searches for this location to give back a notebook.

ANSWER: the friend’s house [accept descriptions like the home of the friend; accept the house of Mohammad Reza or the house of Nematzadeh; accept Where Is the Friend’s House?]

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	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	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	6	11.67	83%	17%	17%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%

Data


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