The Piano - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

In this film, a man played by Sam Neill cuts his wife’s finger off after watching her commit adultery through a crack in a wall. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this film in which Ada has an affair with the Maori-speaking fisherman George. Fearing she cannot use it due to her severed finger, Ada ties herself to the title object of this 1993 Jane Campion film before throwing it into the sea.

ANSWER: The Piano

[10m] To play Ada, Holly Hunter worked with an expert in this language to create a customized non-American version. Troy Kotsur gave his acceptance speech in this language after winning an Oscar for the film CODA.

ANSWER: American Sign Language [or ASL]

[10e] For directing The Piano, Jane Campion became the first woman to win the Palme d’Or, this event’s top prize. This film festival is held annually in a namesake town in the south of France.

ANSWER: Cannes (“can”) Film Festival [or Festival de Cannes]

<Editors, Other Fine Arts>

Back to bonuses

Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	86%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	12.22	78%	44%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	18.33	92%	83%	8%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	89%	67%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	15.83	83%	75%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	89%	67%	0%
North	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	15.83	100%	50%	8%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
South Central	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	14.62	100%	39%	8%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	21.25	100%	75%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%

Data


Berkeley Archer Queen	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
USC B	UC Irvine	0	10	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
UCLA A	Claremont C	0	10	10	20
UCLA C	Claremont B	0	0	10	10
UCSD A	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
UCLA F	UCLA E	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	UCSD B	0	10	10	20
Carleton A	Ottawa C	0	10	10	20
Ottawa A	McGill A	10	10	10	30
McGill B	Ottawa D	0	10	10	20
Carleton B	McGill E	0	0	10	10
McGill C	Ottawa B	10	10	10	30
Waterloo C	Guelph A	0	0	10	10
Waterloo A	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
McMaster C	Brock A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Toronto E	Toronto G	0	10	10	20
Toronto I	Toronto F	0	0	0	0
Queen's A	Toronto H	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	McMaster B	0	10	10	20
UCF A	Florida A	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	Louisville A	0	10	10	20
CWRU D	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	CWRU B	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Ohio State C	0	0	0	0
Michigan State A	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Michigan State B	0	10	10	20
Michigan State D	Michigan State C	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Ohio State A	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Louisville D	10	10	10	30
Ohio State D	WVU A	0	10	10	20
Louisville C	WVU B	0	10	10	20
Duke A	William & Mary C	0	0	10	10
JMU A	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
JMU B	NCSU B	0	0	0	0
George Mason A	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
George Mason B	Penn	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Stony Brook	0	0	10	10
Lehigh A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland C	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	NYU A	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Princeton	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Rowan	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Rutgers C	0	0	0	0
Rutgers D	Vassar A	0	0	10	10
George Mason C	Vassar B	0	10	10	20
WashU Grolars	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Purdue A	Illinois Blue	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Illinois Canada	0	0	10	10
Illinois Champaign	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
Illinois Urbana	William Woods University A	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Rose-Hulman A	Iowa A	0	0	0	0
WashU Grizzlers	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Purdue D	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Wisconsin A	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	Tusculum A	10	10	10	30
Virginia A	UNC A	0	10	10	20
UNC D	UNC B	10	10	10	30
UNC C	VCU A	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	NCSU A	0	0	10	10
William & Mary A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Amherst A	Vermont B	0	0	10	10
Boston College B	Amherst B	0	0	10	10
Brown B	Boston College A	0	10	10	20
Boston University B	Tufts C	0	0	10	10
Williams A	Dartmouth A	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth B	Brandeis Mozart	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth C	Brandeis Beethoven	0	0	10	10
Harvard	MIT B	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Brown A	0	10	10	20
UConn A	Brandeis Bach	10	10	10	30
Vermont A	Boston University A	0	10	10	20
MIT A	Williams B	0	10	10	20
Washington Chum	Alberta A	0	0	10	10
Washington State	Arizona State B	0	10	10	20
Washington Atlantic	Boise State	0	10	10	20
British Columbia C	British Columbia A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia B	Washington Sockeye	0	10	10	20
Washington Pink	Texas	0	0	10	10
Washington Chinook	Washington Masu	0	10	10	20
Alberta B	Washington Coho	0	0	10	10
Washington Steelhead	Arizona State A	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma A	Murray State College B	0	10	10	20
Oklahoma	Nebraska A	10	10	10	30
Nebraska C	Nebraska B	0	0	10	10
Tulsa A	Murray State College A	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt B	Auburn C	0	0	10	10
Emory A	Auburn A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Georgia A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Chipola College	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee Tech	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Clemson B	Georgia Tech D	0	0	10	10
Auburn B	Georgia Tech E	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt C	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Montevallo	Sewanne	0	0	10	10
Clemson C	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Clemson A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Durham B	Edinburgh D	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh A	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh C	Sheffield A	10	0	10	20
Sheffield B	Durham A	10	10	10	30
York	Durham D	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Imperial D	0	10	10	20
Cardiff	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Southampton	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Imperial B	Cambridge D	10	10	10	30
Birmingham	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	Oxford	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	LSE	10	10	10	30
Warwick	Cambridge E	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	Cornell A	0	10	10	20
Binghamton B	ESF	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	Binghamton C	0	10	10	20
RIT A	Cornell D	0	10	10	20
Rochester	Cornell B	0	10	10	20