Question

This male actor’s character is horrified when a bullet breaks his violin during a civil war in the 1968 film Shame. Lute music accompanies a monologue in which this actor asserts he will remember “this moment,” “these strawberries,” and “this bowl of (10[1])milk.” In a film based on a ballad, (-5[1])this actor flogs himself with branches (-5[1])from a birch tree he uprooted, before killing three goat herders who raped his daughter. This actor’s 11 films for a director include (-5[1])Hour of the Wolf, The Virgin Spring, and a film in which his character invites a family of thespians to shelter in his castle from a plague. (10[3])In that 1957 (10[1])film, (10[1])this actor plays (-5[1])Antonius Block, (10[2]-5[1])who takes part (10[2])in a climactic (10[1]-5[1])Danse Macabre. For 10 points, (10[1])what actor played a knight who plays (10[1])chess with Death (10[1]-5[1])in Ingmar (-5[1])Bergman’s The Seventh Seal? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[15])

ANSWER: Max von Sydow (“SEE-dov”) [or Carl Adolf von Sydow]
<AP, Other Fine Arts>
= Average correct buzz position

Summary

Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y367%0%0%118.50
Midwest2025-02-01Y580%0%40%124.50
Northeast2025-02-01Y250%0%0%114.00
Overflow2025-02-01Y250%0%0%108.00
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y10%0%100%0.00
UK2025-02-01Y1070%0%10%124.14
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y729%0%57%73.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Owen MimnoNYU APenn B4110
Jakob MyersIndiana AChicago A49-5
Isaac MammelMaryland APenn A55-5
Aum MundheRutgers AColumbia C78-5
Miller DoerrLiberty BUNC D10510
Andrew FisherSheffieldCambridge C10510
Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins AHaverford A10510
Allan LeeStanford BPurdue10810
Cormac BeirneLSECambridge A10910
Charles HangWashU AMissouri112-5
Neal JoshiWashU BChicago B11410
Nathan SheffieldMIT AHarvard A11410
Zayyan MahmoodSouthampton AOxford B114-5
Alvin GuoChicago DIllinois C11710
Justin LeeImperial AOxford A11710
Truman FillbrandtUW AAlberta120-5
Kai MadgwickManchesterCambridge B12010
Justin WytmarIllinois AIllinois B12510
Graham TroyUNC BVirginia A13210
Louis CameronCambridge EWarwick B13510
William GrogerColumbia BMaryland B135-5
Hrishit ChaudhuriNYU BVassar A137-5
Matt SheldonOxford BSouthampton A14110
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaWilliam & Mary1420
Derek AldridgeWilliam & MarySouth Carolina1420
Braden BoothMissouriWashU A1420
Claire JonesChicago AIndiana A14210
Eren MicheletBUUMass Boston1420
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame ANorthwestern B1420
Ved MuthusamyNorthwestern BNotre Dame A1420
Anne FjeldAlbertaUW A1420
Chris LevesleyWarwick ACambridge D14210
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CImperial B1420
Michael WuSouthampton BBristol1420
Benjamin WatsonOxford CDurham1420
Gus VanskikeMaryland BColumbia B1420
Sasha WertimeHaverford BGeorge Washington B1420
Ivvone ZhouPenn AMaryland A1420
Derek ChenColumbia CRutgers A1420
Peter LutzGeorge Washington BHaverford B1420