Dario Argento - 2024 PLAYTIME

Question

In a film by this director, a slow close-up of two characters teasing each other by sticking out their tongues and hissing at each other cuts abruptly to an extreme close-up of Olga painting her nails red. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this director who was inspired by Thomas de Quincey to create the horror trilogy The Three Mothers. The second and third films of that trilogy are Inferno and Mother of Tears by this director.

ANSWER: Dario Argento

[10m] Argento’s first entry in The Three Mothers trilogy is this film, which was remade by Luca Guadagnino in 2018. In this film, Suzy Bannion kills the witch Helena Markos and flees a dance academy.

ANSWER: Suspiria

[10e] Dario Argento is a director from this country and pioneered its giallo horror genre. Earlier directors from this country include Roberto Rossellini and Michelangelo Antonioni.

ANSWER: Italy [or Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana]

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	7	14.29	100%	43%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%

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