Question
Answer some questions about notable scores from horror films, for 10 points each.
[10e] Bernard Hermann composed a screechy, string-heavy track known as “The Murder” for a scene in this Alfred Hitchock film that depicts Marion Crane getting stabbed to death in a shower.
ANSWER: Psycho
[10m] This composer utilized an alternating “F, F# (“F-sharp”)” theme that repeats and crescendos to represent the tension as a shark creeps up on its victims in the film Jaws.
ANSWER: John Williams [or John Towner Williams]
[10h] The droning score for the sci-fi horror film The Thing was done by this composer. Repeated “B-C-A-low F”sixteen notes on the piano open this composer’s song “The Ecstasy of Gold” from a Sergio Leone film.
ANSWER: Ennio Morricone (“mor-ih-KOH-nay”) (The Sergio Leone film mentioned is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 83% | 100% | 50% |
Data
| Maryland | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Lehigh | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU C | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Princeton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rowan | University of Delaware B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Swarthmore B | Penn | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |