A lost early film in this genre is titled The Great Buddha Arrival. In a film in this genre, a snack bar owner is aided by Fat Guevara and his archer sister to rescue his daughter from sewers near the Han River. The Lucky Dragon 5 incident inspired a film in this genre that opens with an SOS signal from a fishing boat. That film in this genre ends with the use of an “Oxygen Destroyer” after depth charges and an electric fence fail. Bong Joon-ho’s film The Host is in this genre. A (*) 1954 film that pioneered this genre was directed by Ishirō Honda, who was inspired by a political movement against nuclear testing, which disturbs the title reptile antagonist. For 10 points, name this genre of films that feature large characters such as Mothra and Godzilla. ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 67% | 22% | 81.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 125.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 68.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 13% | 38% | 115.63 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 67% | 17% | 98.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 88% | 13% | 63% | 121.14 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 138.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 50% | 89.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 80% | 20% | 88.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 77.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 78.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 91.80 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 90.83 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 37 | 15 |
| Akshar Goyal | Illinois A | Chicago A | 41 | -5 |
| Joy An | Harvard | BU | 48 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSB | 49 | 15 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | UW A | 52 | 15 |
| Darren Kellis | Quatumvirate | Goober Gang | 52 | 15 |
| Steven Yuan | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Free Agents 1 | 53 | 15 |
| Graham Troy | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 54 | 15 |
| Arjun Vijaykumar | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Auburn 2026 | 55 | -5 |
| Robert Wang | evil women enjoyers | Egypt Airlines Haters | 58 | 15 |
| Vasa Clarke | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 62 | 15 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | Claremont B | 62 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Arizona State University B | 62 | -5 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 62 | -5 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Birmingham | 67 | 15 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | NYU A | 74 | 15 |
| Elijah Quan | Michigan C | Ohio State A | 75 | 15 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Imperial A. | 75 | -5 |
| Brendan Bethlehem | Cambridge | Sheffield B | 75 | 15 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 75 | 15 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Illinois Orange | 75 | 15 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Lexington | 75 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 77 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 78 | 15 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 78 | 15 |
| Thomas Tibbetts | Too much from you lately | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 78 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Chicago B | 78 | 15 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 79 | 15 |
| David Allen | Edinburgh | Sheffield A | 81 | 15 |
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 82 | 15 |
| Terrence Han | UCLA B | Caltech | 83 | 15 |
| Simon Faltin | South Dakota School of Mines | Washington Connections | 83 | 15 |
| Matthew Ribar | Arizona State University B | Alberta | 85 | 15 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Truman State | 85 | 15 |
| Danielle Webb | SIUE | WashU Charmander | 85 | 15 |
| Drew Schreiner | Missouri | WashU Bulbasaur | 86 | 15 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 88 | 15 |
| Dillon George | Catholic University of America | Johns Hopkins B | 88 | -5 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | George Washington | 88 | -5 |
| Lowrie Woodside | George Washington | Maryland A | 92 | 0 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | Claremont A | 93 | 15 |
| Chansol Park | NYU C | George Mason C | 93 | -5 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | LSE | 94 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa A | UBC | 94 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 94 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | Toronto C | 94 | 10 |
| Marcus Smith | George Mason B | Georgetown | 94 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | McGill B | 95 | -5 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | McGill A | 96 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Gruh | 101 | 10 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | MSJ | 101 | 10 |
| Kenner Bailey | BU | Harvard | 104 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 104 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto D | Toronto E | 113 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Ohio State C | 114 | 10 |
| Harry Crane | Warwick B | Lancaster | 114 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick C | Sheffield C | 114 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Oberlin | 114 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 118 | 10 |
| Audrey Cho | Haverford B | NYU B | 119 | 10 |
| Sam Alahi | Illinois B | Illinois C | 120 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis | MIT | 120 | 10 |
| Ruchir Kodihalli | CWRU | George Mason A | 120 | -5 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Brown | 126 | -5 |
| Xavier Spano | Waterloo C | Guelph | 132 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State University A | Carleton | 133 | -5 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic University of America | 137 | 10 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A. | Imperial B | 138 | 10 |
| Nabhaan Farooqi | McGill B | Mac A | 138 | 10 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo B | Toronto A | 138 | 10 |
| Alan Kappler | Claremont B | UCSD | 138 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Arizona State University A | 138 | 10 |
| Brodie Henry | Auburn 2026 | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 138 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill A | Waterloo A | 138 | 10 |
| Max Hodes | Chicago A | Illinois A | 138 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | Belmont | 138 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | RIT | 138 | 10 |
| Humzah Shaikh | George Mason A | CWRU | 138 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | George Mason B | 138 | 10 |
| Braydon Morefield | George Mason C | NYU C | 138 | 10 |