In a film from this country, a woman caring for a man with Alzheimer’s suffers a miscarriage after being pushed down a flight of stairs. A director from this country made a film set in Tuscany in which a character played by Juliette Binoche (“bee-NUSH”) debates with a man over his theory that copies are worth as much as originals. A director from this country was accused of plagiarism shortly after the release of his film A Hero. A 1990 docufiction film reenacts events in which a man impersonated a film director from this country. A director from this country, who frequently shot in cars, also made a film in which a suicidal man looks for someone to bury him after death, Taste of Cherry. For 10 points, name this home country of directors Asghar Farhadi (“far-haw-DEE”) and Abbas Kiarostami. ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 33% | 138.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 04/19/2025 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 138.00 |
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 10% | 104.89 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 7 | 43% | 0% | 0% | 92.33 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 9 | 89% | 0% | 22% | 113.63 |
| North | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 27% | 125.50 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 119.50 |
| California | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 118.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 115.60 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 107.00 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 118.82 |
| UK | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 75% | 0% | 13% | 118.17 |
| Overflow | Main | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 0% | 136.67 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 127.80 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 62% | 0% | 15% | 111.38 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Chicago B | 22 | 10 |
| Daniel Kim | Maryland B | Johns Hopkins C | 24 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Sewanee A | 24 | -5 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge B | Birmingham A | 24 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | Rochester | 24 | -5 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 29 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt A | OSU A | 43 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | McGill C | 58 | -5 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Auburn A | 58 | 10 |
| Mateo Acosta | FIU | UF C | 62 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan B | 63 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph A | Toronto C | 67 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | McGill A | 76 | 10 |
| Jake Grodner | Princeton A | Columbia B | 76 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Iowa State | 76 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis Wilson | BC B | 77 | 10 |
| Conner Khan | NC State | South Carolina B | 78 | -5 |
| Ishan Ramesh | Illinois C | Indiana A | 79 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Johns Hopkins A | 86 | 10 |
| Olivia Kiser | Kentucky | Chicago C | 87 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 89 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 92 | 10 |
| Atharv Chowdhary | Brown A | BU | 92 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UCSB | Claremont Pitzer | 93 | 10 |
| Deeba Lealaz | Virginia B | Clemson A | 93 | 10 |
| Jason Cottle | Clemson B | Tusculum | 93 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Minnesota A | 93 | -5 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Cornell-UG | 93 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Oxford B | 93 | 10 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Southampton B | 94 | -5 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | Georgetown A | 95 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester A | Imperial C | 95 | 10 |
| Jesse Chusing | Ottawa | Toronto A | 96 | 10 |
| Brendan Baumer | UCF A | Melbourne B | 98 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington A | Notre Dame E | 100 | -5 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 102 | 10 |
| Loukas Juritsch | Toronto I | McGill B | 103 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Alabama A | 103 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | British Columbia D | British Columbia A | 104 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Tennessee A | 106 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Durham B | 106 | 10 |
| Andrew Massaro | Catholic University | Georgetown B | 107 | -5 |
| Zachary Foster | City St George's A | Imperial A | 107 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford B | 109 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | MSU B | 115 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Brandeis Clemenceau | 117 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | OSU C | CWRU B | 119 | 10 |
| Brayden Whitlow | George Mason C | Penn B | 120 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Harvard | 120 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | Dartmouth | 120 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge C | 120 | 10 |
| Joshua Koch | Michigan A | Illinois A | 123 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia B | 123 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield A | Cambridge D | 123 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | North Carolina B | 126 | 10 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia A | Lehigh A | 126 | 10 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | NC State | 127 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Simon Fraser | 127 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Michigan C | 130 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Chicago D | 132 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Stanford C | UCSC | 133 | -5 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | George Mason B | 133 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCI | 134 | 10 |
| Ankit Kawade | Johns Hopkins C | Maryland B | 134 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU B | 134 | 10 |
| Aarnav Vyas | Illinois B | Notre Dame B | 134 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 136 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | Waterloo | 136 | 10 |
| Tosca Zhang | NYU B | UMBC A | 136 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Huntsville A | 136 | 10 |
| Kapil Nathan | UAB A | Huntsville B | 136 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley F | Berkeley E | 137 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Berkeley C | 137 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto F | 137 | -5 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Toronto D | 137 | 10 |
| Tyler Turnpaugh | Georgetown B | Catholic University | 137 | 10 |
| Khumoyun Bakhtiyarov | Brandeis Orlando | BC A | 137 | 10 |
| Sidarth Erat | MIT B | Amherst A | 137 | 10 |
| Aarav Kakad | UCLA C | UCLA D | 138 | 10 |
| Isaac Millians | USC | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 138 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Guelph B | 138 | 0 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's A | Toronto H | 138 | 0 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Carleton | 138 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | McMaster B | 138 | 0 |
| Stephen Pace | Guelph B | Toronto E | 138 | 0 |
| Hafsa Shaikh | Toronto G | Toronto J | 138 | 10 |
| Larry Sun | McGill C | Toronto K | 138 | 0 |
| Imtiaz Kidwai | Toronto F | Toronto Metropolitan | 138 | 0 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Western Ontario | 138 | 0 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Queen's A | 138 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | UF E | FSU | 138 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | Melbourne A | 138 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | UF D | 138 | 0 |
| Alex Olson | UF D | UF B | 138 | 10 |
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | UF E | 138 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UCF B | 138 | 10 |
| Peter Zeng | OSU D | CWRU A | 138 | 0 |
| Andrew Amygdalos | CWRU A | OSU D | 138 | 0 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | CWRU C | 138 | 0 |
| Kieran Fake | CWRU C | Kenyon B | 138 | 0 |
| Ethan White | Kenyon A | CWRU D | 138 | 0 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Kenyon A | 138 | 0 |
| Emmet Ewing | MSU A | OSU B | 138 | 0 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | MSU A | 138 | 0 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 138 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds—Captain | Liberty C | Virginia Tech A | 138 | 10 |
| William Edwards | Tennessee A | Virginia A | 138 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | Tennessee B | 138 | 0 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Roanoke | 138 | 0 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | George Washington B | 138 | 10 |
| Jeremy Katen | George Mason A | Maryland D | 138 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | VCU A | 138 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Washington A | 138 | 0 |
| Jensen Tebbe | Columbia C | Lehigh B | 138 | 0 |
| Jack Stuhlman | Lehigh B | Columbia C | 138 | 0 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Rowan A | 138 | 0 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Rutgers C | 138 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Vassar A | 138 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | Missouri B | 138 | 10 |
| Tyler Thurman | SIUE | WashU C | 138 | 0 |
| John John Groger | WashU A | William Woods | 138 | 10 |
| Jack Funke | Missouri B | Truman State | 138 | 0 |
| Henry Lytle | WashU C | SIUE | 138 | 0 |
| Osbaldo Porrua | UIC | Notre Dame A | 138 | 0 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Louisville B | 138 | 0 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois C | 138 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Michigan D | 138 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Purdue C | 138 | 10 |
| Eugene Kim | Purdue C | Notre Dame D | 138 | 0 |
| Nathan Woolery | Louisville B | Purdue B | 138 | 0 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | UIC | 138 | 0 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Kentucky | 138 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Carleton | 138 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Bowdoin B | 138 | 10 |
| Eames Weeks | Brown B | Amherst B | 138 | 0 |
| Dylan Tanouye | Tufts B | Brandeis Lloyd George | 138 | 0 |
| Fahian Joy | Amherst B | Brown B | 138 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts B | 138 | 10 |
| George Matsumura | Washington B | Alberta | 138 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Alabama B | 138 | 0 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Auburn B | 138 | 0 |
| Samir Sarma | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech A | 138 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech D | 138 | 0 |
| Nelson Adams-Riley | Sewanee A | Georgia Tech B | 138 | 0 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Mississippi State A | 138 | 0 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Vanderbilt B | 138 | 10 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Durham A | 138 | 0 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Sheffield C | 138 | 10 |
| Jake Wingfield | Bristol B | LSE A | 138 | 10 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell-DII | 138 | 0 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Binghamton A | 138 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | ESF | 138 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell-DII | Binghamton B | 138 | 0 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | RIT A | 138 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | Syracuse | 138 | 0 |