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Question

In a film from this country that won the Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes (“can”) Film Festival, a boy and his sister run to catch sight of a train. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this home country of Satyajit Ray (“SHOH-toh-jit RYE”). The Bollywood and Tollywood industries produce films in this country.

ANSWER: India [or Republic of India; or Bhārat Gaṇarājya]

[10h] In a 1963 Ray film titled for a “big” one of these places, the housewife Arati (“AH-ruh-tee”) gets a job as a saleswoman with a higher salary than her husband’s job. In a 1931 film partly titled for one of these places, the Tramp befriends a drunk millionaire and falls in love with a blind flower seller.

ANSWER: cities [or city; accept The Big City; accept City Lights]

[10m] Ray was inspired to direct his own films after working as an assistant to this director for the film The River. This director satirized French society in the films La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game.

ANSWER: Jean Renoir

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California	Main	Y	5	20.00	100%	40%	60%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	0%	33%
Florida	Main	Y	8	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	11.67	100%	0%	17%
Midwest	Main	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
North	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	14%	43%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Southeast	Main	Y	10	18.00	100%	30%	50%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Berkeley B	Berkeley F	10	10	10	30
Berkeley D	UCSC	10	10	10	30
Berkeley E	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
Claremont Scripps	UCSB	10	0	0	10
UCI	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
Claremont Pitzer	UCLA D	10	0	0	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	10	0	0	10
UCLA C	USC	10	0	0	10
Queen's B	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto C	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	Guelph A	10	10	0	20
Toronto D	Toronto E	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Toronto I	10	0	0	10
McGill C	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Toronto F	Toronto K	10	0	0	10
McMaster A	Western Ontario	10	10	0	20
UF A	FIU	10	0	0	10
Melbourne B	UF B	10	0	0	10
UF E	UF D	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	OSU B	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	CWRU C	10	0	0	10
CWRU D	Pitt A	10	0	0	10
MSU A	OSU C	10	10	0	20
OSU A	Pitt C	10	0	0	10
NC State	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina C	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
North Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
Catholic University	Penn B	10	0	0	10
VCU A	George Washington A	10	0	0	10
George Mason A	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown A	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Johns Hopkins C	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Penn A	10	0	0	10
MSU B	Kenyon B	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Truman State	SIUE	10	0	0	10
WashU A	WashU D	10	0	0	10
WashU B	WashU C	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	UIC	10	0	0	10
Michigan D	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Illinois A	10	10	10	30
Illinois B	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Notre Dame C	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Louisville B	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Purdue B	Notre Dame D	10	0	0	10
Illinois C	Purdue A	10	0	10	20
Purdue C	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Amherst A	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Amherst B	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Brandeis Orlando	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Brandeis Wilson	10	10	0	20
Brown B	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Brown C	10	0	0	10
Cornell-UG	BU	10	0	0	10
MIT B	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Brown A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth	Yale B	10	0	0	10
British Columbia A	Alberta	10	0	10	20
British Columbia B	Simon Fraser	10	10	10	30
Washington A	British Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Bristol A	Manchester B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Warwick B	10	0	10	20
Washington B	British Columbia D	10	0	0	10
Cornell-DII	Rochester	10	0	0	10
Syracuse	RIT B	10	0	0	10